Childhood dreams quotes

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

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 didn’t know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that’s what I was going to be.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

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.

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

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

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

When I was five I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.