I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

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

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

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.

I always wanted a family.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

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

Dream and you shall become.

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

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

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.

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

Some day I shall be President.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

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

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

My drive is other people’s success.

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

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.