Longing and Dreaming

In the beginning of a story, the hero or heroine usually longs for their goals and/or prepares to go out to reach it. Longing and dreaming is the start of a main character's life. There are many ways the hero or heroine displays this feeling:
 * 1) Gazing out a window.
 * 2) Singing a longing song (for example, "That's All I Need", "On My Father's Wings", "Who Will Sing My Song to Me", "Soon You'll Come Home to My Heart", "Reflection", "Part of Your World", "Jack's Lament", "Go the Distance", "One Jump Ahead", "Journey to the Past", "Rumor in St. Petersburg", "For The First Time In Forever", "No Other One For Me", "In Summer", "Over the Rainbow", "Maybe", "Soon", "Danny's Arrival Song", "A Place For Me", "One Jump Ahead", "After Today" "It's too Heavenly here" "Out There," "When Will My Life Begin," "God Help The Outcasts," and "My Name is James") or the hero/heroine's thoughts can be expressed in silence with instrumental music (example, "Binary Sunset")
 * 3) Stepping out a door.
 * 4) Wishing on a star.
 * 5) Entering a new environment.
 * 6) Looking at the sunset or into the horizon.
 * 7) Admiring others for inspiration.
 * 8) Making a bedtime prayer.
 * 9) Introducing him/herself.
 * 10) Talking at an interview.
 * 11) Praying in church.
 * 12) Speaking to a loved one.
 * 13) Beginning the first steps of a journey.

Quotes
"No. I don't think you will."

- E.B. longing to become a band member.

""What I'd give. What I'd dare. Just to live one day out there!""

- Quasimodo longing to be outside of Notre Dame.

"Am I just eating, because I'm bored?"

- The Grinch wishing that he want a friend to understand how he feel other than Max.

""Some place where there isn't any trouble." Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat, or a train. It's far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain..."

- Dorothy Gale dreaming about discovering a new land.

"Someday Abu, things are gonna change, we'll be rich, live in a palace, and never have any problems at all."

- Aladdin dreaming about living in the palace for a better life.

"One day, I'll be a knight like Father."

- Kayley

"There must be more than this provincial life!"

- Belle

"When will my reflection show who I am inside?"

- Mulan

"But every once in a while, there's a day when I don't have to be a princess. No lessons, no expectations. A day when anything can happen. A day I can change my fate."

- Merida

"There's a better place out there, somewhere beyond that hill, and it has wide open spaces and lots of trees... and grass. Can you imagine that? Cool green grass."

- Ginger

"If I'm really honest with myself, I see Felix up there getting patted on the back. People giving him pie and thanking him, so happy to see him all the time. Sometimes I think, "Man, sure must be nice being the good guy.""

- Wreck-It Ralph

"If only I could make him understand. I just don't see things the way he does. I don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad."

- Ariel

"That's the thing. I've charted stars and they're always constant. But these - they appear every year on my birthday, Mother. ONLY on my birthday. And I can't help but feel like they're...they're meant for me. I need to see them, Mother, and not just from my window. In person. I have to know what they are."

- Rapunzel

"Oh, Grandpa, I messed up again. I sure don't mean to make trouble, so much for spirit."

- Gosalyn

"It just isn't fair! Oh Biggs is right, I'm never gonna get out of here! (C-3PO: Is there anything I might do to help?) Well...Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this Rock!"

- Luke Skywalker longing to leave home and join the Rebellion

"I will be the most powerful Jedi ever! I promise you...I will even learn to stop people from dying."

- Anakin Skywalker

"So maybe now this prayer's the last one of its kind. Won't you please come bet your baby...maybe."

- Annie singing about getting a new family

"Well, there's one thing: They can't order me to stop dreaming. And perhaps someday the dreams that I wish will come true."

- Cinderella

"Please try to understand. I've never done a thing on my own! I've never had any real friends (Rajah growls) Except you, Rajah. I've never even been outside the palace walls. (Sultan: But, Jasmine, you're a princess!) Then maybe I don't wanna BE a princess anymore! (She splashes the water in anger) (Sultan [growling with frustration]: Oooohhh! Allah forbid you should have any daughters! (Sultan sulks off; Rajah grunts in confusion) (Jasmine goes to the dove cage and yanks open the door. She watches dreamily as all the doves fly free.)"

- Princess Jasmine longing for life outside her father's palace.

"I don't wanna be just a... a stupid tinker!"

- Tinker Bell

"If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff."

- Remy

"How do I become a scarer?"

- Mike Wazowski

"The idea of avenging my family seemed so far off. Just five years old, i'm only a weak little dinosaur."

- Speckles

"I can't wait to meet everyone! (gasps) What if I meet THE one?"

- Anna

"Nope. But sometimes I like to close my eyes and imagine what it'd be like when summer does come... Ahhh..."

- Olaf

"I wanna become an inventor. I wanna meet Bigweld. I wanna BE somebody!"

- Rodney Copperbottom

"I wonder what's out there."

- Despereaux

"Kansas is full of good men. Church-going men that get married and raise families. Men like John Gale...men like my father, who spent his whole life tilling the dirt, just to die facedown in it. I don't want that, Annie. I don't wanna be a GOOD man. I wanna be a GREAT one. I wanna be Harry Houdini and Thomas Edison all rolled into one."

- Oscar Diggs

"Who am I, Kylie? (Kylie: Who how? What now?) Why a fox? Why not a horse, or a beetle or a bald eagle, you know? I'm saying this more as, like, existentialism, you know? Who am I, and how can a fox ever be happy without, you'll forgive the expression, a chicken in its teeth? (Kylie: I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds illegal.) Here, put this bandit hat on. (Kylie puts on the mask) Maybe you're a medium. Take it off and don't wear it around the house. (Kylie takes it off.) And so it begins."

- Mr Fox longing to go back to stealing birds from farms.

"This isn't just my vacation, it's a vacation with me and my best buddy. (Max: Oh, Donald Duck?) No, silly, with you! (Max is horrified as he faints.)"

- Goofy longing for having a vacation with his son, Max.

"However, this valourous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous."

- V showing his goals to get revenge on Norsefire, as part of his opening monologue to Evey Hammond

"My name is Flint Lockwood. And I am about to invent a machine that turns water into food."

- Flint Lockwood

"(Ozpin: And what is an adorable girl such as yourself doing at a school designed to train warriors?) Well... I want to be a huntress. (Ozpin: You want to slay monsters.) Yeah. I only have two more years at Signal, and then I’m going to apply to Beacon. See, my sister started there this year, and she’s trying to become a huntress, and, I wanna become a huntress because I wanna help people. My parents always taught us to help others, so I thought, "Hey, I might as well make a career out of it!" I mean, the police are alright, but Huntsman and Huntresses are just so much more romantic and exciting and really, gosh, you know? (Ozpin: Do you know who I am?) You're Professor Ozpin. You're the headmaster at Beacon. (Ozpin: Hello.) Nice to meet you. (Ozpin: You want to come to my school?) More than anything. (Glynda sighs) (Ozpin: Well, okay.)"

- Ruby Rose

"(Vladimir: Well Dimitri, I got us a theater.) Everything's going according to plan. All we need is the girl. Just think, Vlad, no more forging papers, no more stolen goods. We'll have three tickets out of here. One for you, one for me and one for Anastasia."

- Dimitri

"Hi, I'm Oscar. You might think you know, but you have no idea... [beatbox] Welcome to my crib! The good life the way the other half lives! Check it out! I've got my 60 inch black screen TV with 6 speaker surround! CD! DVD! Playstation, and a 8-track player for when you're feelin' just a little [beat boxes] Ol' School! [laughs] 'cause even a superstar Mack Daddy fish like me has to have the basic necessities! (Shorty: Yeah, like money!) (Camera zooms out to reveal Oscar standing infront of a billboard ad)"

- Oscar dreaming of becoming rich and famous.

"I'm beginning to think nothing I do works (Dot, viewing Flik's telescope: This works!) Great. One success. I'm never gonna make a difference."

- Flik longing to impress the ant colony.

"Gonna talk to Roxanne and not feel like a Fool!"

- Max Goof longing to impress Roxanne.

"What do they have against people who are different, anyway?"

- Esmeralda longing to help all outcasts of the world.

"I wish I could believe that, Ironhide."

- Optimus Prime longing about restoring peace of the Autobots' homeworld of Cybertron.

"What's the point, Ma? All we do is dig, so we can hide, and hide so we can dig! I wanna be where we don't have to dig tunnels, and live with our heads stuck in the sand! What's so bad about dreaming of a better home?"

- Timon dreaming of finding a paradise.

"He was a bright young lad, who was very anxious to learn the business."

- Deems Taylor on Mickey Mouse's dream of being a great sorcerer.