Robert Crais Quotes

I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!

An unlimited future. Isn't that what America is all about?

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.

Every human being has a dream. I think what's special about the American Dream is that it implies, given everything that's happened with the history of America, that there is the opportunity to make your dream come true. So I think America signifies opportunity.

You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go THBBBBBT.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.

I hoped for something else. It's a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream - one that exists at the very center of the American experience. One that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you'll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better.

I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.

To me, the fact that the Mexican came North in search of a better life is a tremendous epic that hasn't been written. It's an odyssey that we know nothing about. And they came with a dream for a better life.

In America, all things are possible.

If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

I say to people that Los Angeles is a city of America's hope and its promise. It's a city where we come from every corner of the Earth here to make the American dream happen.

Dallas was a place where dreamers like my father were given a chance.

There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.

I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.

This is my chance to make it all happen, in the one city, where they say dreams come true.

The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.

I am proof that the American dream still exists.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.