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.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

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 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.

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.

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.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

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.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

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

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

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

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

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

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

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

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

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

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.

Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That’s why they don’t have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they’re limiting movement.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

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

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

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

I always wanted a family.

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

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.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

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.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Every artist wants something different out the game.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

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.

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.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

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.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

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

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

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

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

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.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

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 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.

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.

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.