I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

We’re all dreamers.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I’ve stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.