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.

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

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.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

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.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

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

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

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 was so rude when I was a little girl.

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.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

I didn’t play with other children.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

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

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

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.

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

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.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.

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.

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.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

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

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

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.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

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.

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.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

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

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.