All Quotes

I always wanted to be a basketball player.
‐‐ Ronnie James Dio

I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.
‐‐ Dirk Nowitzki

I always wanted to be a 'Blue Peter' presenter when I grew up!
‐‐ Sophie Aldred

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.
‐‐ Giancarlo Esposito

I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.
‐‐ Eric Burdon

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.
‐‐ Alison Elliott

I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

I always wanted to be a comedian, but I wasn't sure how you do that.
‐‐ Ron Shock

I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
‐‐ Adam DeVine

I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?
‐‐ Liam Neeson

I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.
‐‐ Mark Spitz

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
‐‐ Alexander McQueen

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
‐‐ Kate Ashfield

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
‐‐ Bjork

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.
‐‐ Ricky Martin

I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could learn the craft, and got paid to learn the craft.
‐‐ Mark Romanek

I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on 'The Simpsons,' which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes as a way to learn how to direct actors and I sort of fell in love with it.
‐‐ Jonah Hill

I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic.
‐‐ Neil Marshall

I always wanted to be a filmmaker, but I started acting when I was 9 years old. I looked a certain part that I wasn't, really. I played, you know, a high school jock with a lot of attitude or a spoiled rich kid, and I was neither of those things. I was from a very working-class family in Van Nuys.
‐‐ Steve Antin

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.
‐‐ John Tesh

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.
‐‐ Alan Hansen

I always wanted to be a great actor.
‐‐ Sally Field

I always wanted to be a hairdresser.
‐‐ David Beckham

I always wanted to be a leading man!
‐‐ Randy Jackson

I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.
‐‐ Bryce Harper

I always wanted to be a makeup artist. When I don't get to have my stylist, I do my own makeup!
‐‐ Nikki Reed

I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz

I always wanted to be a model, never an actress. I would see children in ads and stuff and wanted to be like them.
‐‐ Anushka Sharma

I always wanted to be a mom.
‐‐ Heidi Klum

I always wanted to be a mommy.
‐‐ Stephanie Seymour

I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.
‐‐ James Blunt

I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.
‐‐ Emeli Sande

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
‐‐ John Burnside

I always wanted to be a part of a New York-based label, so I've worked really hard to try and network with people that I felt would put me in the right place.
‐‐ Bridget Kelly

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.
‐‐ Ben Schott

I always wanted to be a pilot.
‐‐ Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
‐‐ Ron White

I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.
‐‐ Billy Horschel

I always wanted to be a professional athlete, it just took me a while to realise it would be in racing. I played field hockey competitively for Ontario since I was 13, 14. Then I tried for the national side and made it. But it was so competitive. The girls were just so big and strong. I was getting crushed.
‐‐ Chantal Sutherland

I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.
‐‐ Ester Dean

I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.
‐‐ Jill Scott

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.
‐‐ Joe Eszterhas

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.
‐‐ Chester Bennington

I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.
‐‐ Jonah Lehrer

I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
‐‐ Jeannette Walls

I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
‐‐ Q'orianka Kilcher

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
‐‐ Nate Ruess

I always wanted to be a singer. I was going to finish school and go to Berkley, and then Vine came out, and I felt like I could finally show people my talent. I can even sing in the Vines. It's honestly changed my life. I don't know where I would be right now without it.
‐‐ Lele Pons

I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier.
‐‐ Britney Spears

I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'
‐‐ Dane Cook

I always wanted to be a sprinter.
‐‐ Michael Johnson

I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.
‐‐ Adam DeVine

I always wanted to be a star.
‐‐ Cilla Black

I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
‐‐ Robert Rodriguez

I always wanted to be a superhero.
‐‐ Charles Michael Davis

I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
‐‐ Magdi Yacoub

I always wanted to be a teacher.
‐‐ Nicky Hilton

I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.
‐‐ Tony Danza

I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.
‐‐ Chrissy Teigen

I always wanted to be a writer.
‐‐ John Searles

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.
‐‐ Anne Fadiman

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.
‐‐ Helen Oyeyemi

I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating 'Critical Care' for years. I would go for a whole year and not touch it. And then I'd go back to it.
‐‐ Richard Dooling

I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.
‐‐ Kristin Gore

I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
‐‐ Irvin D. Yalom

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.
‐‐ Brittany Murphy

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.
‐‐ Betty White

I always wanted to be a zoologist. I'm fascinated with animals. I wanted to be a zookeeper.
‐‐ Nigel Barker

I always wanted to be ambidextrous, ever since I was a little girl. I wanted to be able to use both hands, and I still use my left hand a lot.
‐‐ Holly Madison

I always wanted to be an actor.
‐‐ Dan Stevens

I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.
‐‐ Bryan Batt

I always wanted to be an actor, but I just never told anyone. I had this superstition that if I said it out loud, it wouldn't come true.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.
‐‐ Rooney Mara

I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
‐‐ Dane DeHaan

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.
‐‐ Nicholas Brendon

I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.
‐‐ Lance Henriksen

I always wanted to be an actor. I always wanted to be John Wayne.
‐‐ Bill Engvall

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.
‐‐ Tim Matheson

I always wanted to be an actor. It's something I always secretly wanted. You know, I had the experience of being picked on as a child, and I would tell people, 'You're gonna be sorry when I'm famous!' And then I learned after they kicked the stuffing out me that you don't say that out loud.
‐‐ DJ Qualls

I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.
‐‐ Joshua Malina

I always wanted to be an actor, so part of me is split between the artistic side and the physical side, but then physically I was just born as quite a healthy specimen!
‐‐ Dave Legeno

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
‐‐ Frances Bay

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.
‐‐ Reba McEntire

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.
‐‐ AnnaLynne McCord

I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
‐‐ Tahyna Tozzi

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.
‐‐ Andy Cohen

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.
‐‐ Jessie J

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.
‐‐ Julie Mehretu

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
‐‐ Janis Joplin

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I always wanted to be an astronaut.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

I always wanted to be an athlete. Then when I realized that I can't run very fast, jump very high, or catch anything, I thought, 'Maybe if this doesn't work out, I can be an actor.'
‐‐ Geoff Stults

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.
‐‐ Michael Palin

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.
‐‐ Christian McKay