Norman Rockwell Quotes

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.

When I was younger, I looked to actors like they were from another planet. You couldn't believe you could be anywhere near that world. It was exciting. I kind of like that.

I'm honest - of course I want to be a legend.

Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.

The people who support me are so great! They all say such nice things that make me feel really great. I love it when people compliment me on the way I act, because it is not an easy thing, and there is so much criticism out there.

I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

My fantasy life made me survivor. One day I knew that me, this skinny, ugly girl who was only invited to slumber parties when they were forced to - someday I knew I would be someone. That was my driving goal. It wasn't to be famous. I didn't want furs and signing autographs, I didn't care about any of that. I wanted to be someone other than myself.

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.

Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.

Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"

I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.

I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens, I'm always disappointed because it's never like what I imagined in my head. When an idea becomes a reality, then it's a job. I'd rather just think about it.