I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.
‐‐ Josh Ryan Evans
I always knew I wanted to be a chef.
‐‐ Grant Achatz
I always knew I wanted to be a doctor, but I also knew that being a doctor meant more than treating just the patient in front of you.
‐‐ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.
‐‐ Emeli Sande
I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.
‐‐ Andra Day
I always knew I wanted to be a performer.
‐‐ Heather Dubrow
I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
‐‐ Aaron Patzer
I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
‐‐ Karen Kingsbury
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
‐‐ Hannah Kent
I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.
‐‐ Ashley Jensen
I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there.
‐‐ Susanna Thompson
I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.
‐‐ Marc Benioff
I always knew I wanted to be in a band.
‐‐ Hayley Williams
I always knew I wanted to be in films but didn't want anyone to taunt my parents. So I excelled in studies. I was a topper in school and college, so when I decided to become a model, people said, 'Oh your daughter is modeling,' so at least my parents could say, 'Yeah but she also came first in class.'
‐‐ Anushka Sharma
I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV.
‐‐ Andy Cohen
I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.
‐‐ Lisa Leslie
I always knew I wanted to be on air and travel the world and tell people's stories. I wanted to convey something from other cultures to the U.S. - and vice versa.
‐‐ Clarissa Ward
I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.
‐‐ Alice Temperley
I always knew I wanted to create original material, and after having meetings with all sorts of record labels, I decided that Sony was the right place to do it. They knew what I wanted to make and gave me the freedom to express myself.
‐‐ Kygo
I always knew I wanted to dance. I started ballet when I was three years old, and I just knew it was something that I loved and that I wanted to do.
‐‐ Bianca Marroquin
I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.
‐‐ Jillian Bell
I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.
‐‐ Chord Overstreet
I always knew I wanted to have children.
‐‐ Cindy Crawford
I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, 'This is the guy.' When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
‐‐ Cindy Crawford
I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
‐‐ Tamara Mellon
I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played.
‐‐ Dustin Johnson
I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.
‐‐ Michael Dell
I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.
‐‐ Chris Benz
I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.
‐‐ India de Beaufort
I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
‐‐ Little Richard
I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
‐‐ Freddie Mercury
I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.
‐‐ Maximillian Degenerez
I always knew I was different and that people had opinions about me. I guess I learned as best as I can to shield out a lot and live my life from within.
‐‐ Matisyahu
I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.
‐‐ Rick Mercer
I always knew I was going somewhere - going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there.
‐‐ Brad Pitt
I always knew I was going to be a family man.
‐‐ Ricky Schroder
I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.
‐‐ Robert Osborne
I always knew I was going to grow up to be a storyteller; that's one of the earliest things I remember about myself. There was never a question of me not writing.
‐‐ Regina Doman
I always knew I was going to make it, without doubt.
‐‐ Chazz Palminteri
I always knew I was the center of my parents.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton
I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
‐‐ Eddie Albert
I always knew I would adopt. Always.
‐‐ Charlize Theron
I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.
‐‐ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan
I always knew I would live in France.
‐‐ Andre Boucourechliev
I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends, and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
‐‐ Gerard Manley Hopkins
I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyong 40, but I didn't realise it would start at 35.
‐‐ Greta Scacchi
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
‐‐ Cat Stevens