Tim Burton Quotes

Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

The most important dreams occur while people are fully awake.

She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.

The action is what makes the dreams come true. Always do your best. The dream that you have becomes real when you take the action. If you dont take the action whatever is in your head ... will dissolve and you will forget about it

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they never turned. And the source of it all [is] the human mind.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

His mind’s always on something else. He’d live in a ratty cardigan, and he’s always worrying holes in the pockets of his pants. He can never seem to find his wallet or anything in the refrigerator. And just when you think he’s not paying any attention to what you’re saying or doing, he comes up with exactly the right answer or solution.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death"“People""who expect perfection in a mate miss a lot of fun—and sweetness.", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead, that’s not the great pity. I mean that he couldn’t tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn’t tell him what was real.

Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but real.

You can linger too long in your dreams.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

Reality is a magic lady, sometimes very mysterious. To me she is very passionate. She is real not only when she is awake, walking down the streets, but also at night when she is dreaming or when she is having nightmares. When I am writing, I am always paying tribute to her - to that lady called Reality.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.