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

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

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

Some day I shall be President.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

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.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

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

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

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.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

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

Every artist wants something different out the game.

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

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

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. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

I don’t want to be an action star; action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

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

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.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

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

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

My drive is other people’s success.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

We’re all dreamers.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

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

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

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.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

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

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

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.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

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.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

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.