Rory O'Malley Quotes

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

Going to Broadway - then to be invited to the Tonys - I really tap into what that feels like now to fulfill lifetime goals.

I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.

I love watching people's dreams come true.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.

I am pleased that my work has been recognized, and I hope to be a role model.

The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

I've always wanted to be mentioned in the same sentence or at the same time that you say Quincy Jones or you say Stevie Wonder. I never thought that could possibly ever happen.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

If anyone has a dream out there, just know that I'm living proof that they do come true.

Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true. I've been truly blessed.

That I even get to play a sold-out show where people know the words and I'm singing about things I'm connected to is such a blessing. It's the equivalent of a nine-year-old saying, 'I want to be an astronaut when I grow up,' and then getting to go to the moon.

Winning the cannon was a childhood dream.

My dreams are bigger than money; they're bigger than fame.