Keira Knightley Quotes

It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid.

I was the kid who stared out the window. I fantasized myself on the deck of pirate ships - Cussler at the bridge.

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.

I've always had a fascination with pirates. You know, I've written a song completely inspired by I want this to feel like pirates, you know, fighting together, made a music video about it, yada, yada.

I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her.

The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they've been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate!

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy.

It's every boy's dream to play Captain Hook.

What kid doesn't want to pretend they're James Bond?

John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.

I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.

I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,' I inspected all the wardrobes, sure one had to be a portal to another world. I was also a true believer in faeries, and perhaps still am.

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.

As a kid, I read 'Peter Pan,' and I really wanted to be him.

As a kid, it was always my dream to open a closet and end up fighting dragons or battling aliens.

You can't go wrong with pirates. I mean, they're pirates. It's what everyone wants to be when they're a kid. Ninja, assassin, or a pirate - and now you can kind of be all three.

I can go back to when I was six years old. I was always getting in trouble for dreaming, and the things I got in trouble for dreaming then are the things I'm doing today.

You spend all this time, as a child, coming up with these fantasy stories, and here I am, sleeping in a treehouse, in the middle of Canyon de Chelly, shooting a Western. That's a bit of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.