Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

I don't know a lot of people who achieve what they have really dreamed of as a little girl.

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

I've been telling people 'I'm going to go to California, and I'm going to be a big star' since the womb, but lately it was immediately followed by, 'Would you like soup or salad with that?'

I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time I was about 5. Then I turned 15 and realized how silly that was and just gave up on it.

I guess I've sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want to be the Queen of England.

My dream was never to become this unattainable star.

Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.

I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

When I was a minor league player, my goal was to be a major leaguer. It's no different as a minor league manager.