Tamannaah Quotes

I wanted to be a dramatic actress. Life doesn't go the way you think it's going to go.

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.

Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

I still have dreams, but instead of having them written on a little piece of paper, I live a little bit of them every day.

I may be an aspiring actor, but I am also a realist.

I think young folks have a good sense of what they want to do.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

I enjoyed living in Chicago and doing plays for little or no money. I never actually thought that I would leave Chicago, originally. I wasn't one of those people that had a plan to pack up the van and drive out to Hollywood. I didn't want to.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Even when I was doing well in acting, my dad would say, 'You can still go back to dental school.' But since I've been on '90210,' I haven't heard that.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

You know, I'm still deciding what I'm going to be when I grow up.

The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.