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

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

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.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

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.

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

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 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.

It is natural to want to have a future.

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

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

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

Every artist wants something different out the game.

Some day I shall be President.

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.

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.

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

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

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

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

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

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.

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.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

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 most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

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.

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

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

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

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 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 have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

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

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

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

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

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.

My drive is other people’s success.

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

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

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.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

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.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

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 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.

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.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

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 can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

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.

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.

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.