Anne McClain Quotes

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

I'm a little kid from St. Louis, Missouri, on the inside.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

I was the kind of kid who loved singing. I loved rapping; I loved attention. But for me, it was more about chasing the dream of being a superstar because of the town I was from and because of what I'd seen.

We don't teach our children how to dream.

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.

Winning the cannon was a childhood dream.

I was a dreamer, and I still am one.

Those early years in New Jersey were amazing. We lived in a really small town with tons of kids my age. There were fields and woods and a creek - it was a pretty ideal place to be a little kid.

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

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.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.