Daydream Quotes

I used to hear all these guys on 78s at my mother‘s when I was a teenager… I used to daydream that I was onstage playing the solos; I’m playing with B.B. King, and I’m playing with Lowell Fulsom, Jimmy McCracklin. And I literally ended up being in a band that backed them up at different clubs.

I daydream about romance and stuff.

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I’m paying attention.

I’ve wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the ‘A-Team‘ van or something.

I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I’m working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They’re the best tools for working that I have.

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

I’ve had times where I’ve joked, like, ‘I’m going to move to Vermont and become a painter.’ And sometimes that joke felt like, ‘Oh that’s a good idea.’ But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.

I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That’s one of the sad things about Vegas.

Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that.

I daydream all the time.

It’s true that I tend to daydream. I’m the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It’s my style.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don’t have enough time to just sit and daydream.

People ask me if I ever get sick of playing ‘Daydream Believer‘ or whatever. But I don’t look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco?’

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Everything starts as somebody‘s daydream.

I don’t have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it’s not realistic to daydream about it.

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

I’ve been embracing aging. I always have, since I was a kid. When you’re the kid on the set for so long, you just, like, daydream about being older.

I made myself a little angry before beam. That’s the best way to do beam. It’s important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it’s more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

‘The Turner Diaries‘ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

I’m in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about.

They used to complain at school that I looked out of the window for long periods of time – that sums up my life. I like to look out the window, do nothing, daydream.

I’ve always wanted to be in comedy… growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media – it was always just a daydream.

Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry – a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language – and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind.

For basically three years, I was doing ‘Catfish‘ and ‘We Are Your Friends‘ at the same time – it was like straddling two very long-term creative marriages. And when you’re in a long-term creative commitment, you tend to daydream and fantasize about smaller creative flings that you want to have.

I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk – I’m kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that’s when I write.

It’s very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it’s hard for people to figure out if you’re not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.