All Quotes

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.
‐‐ Lucy Hawking

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
‐‐ Beverly Cleary

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.
‐‐ April Bowlby

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
‐‐ Jaclyn Smith

I wanted to be a barrister for a long time.
‐‐ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.
‐‐ John Mayer

I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.
‐‐ Amy Madigan

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.
‐‐ Gilbert Gottfried

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.
‐‐ Jim Lehrer

I wanted to be a businesswoman from as early as I can remember, and specifically, my real passion was real estate.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.
‐‐ Michael Stuhlbarg

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
‐‐ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.
‐‐ Paula Cole

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.
‐‐ Robert Fulghum

I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.
‐‐ Annette Bening

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.
‐‐ Allan Sloan

I wanted to be a comedian.
‐‐ Kelly Slater

I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
‐‐ Gabriel Iglesias

I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.
‐‐ Steve Vai

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.
‐‐ Kirsten Nelson

I wanted to be a cowboy in cowboy movies.
‐‐ Mary Pope Osborne

I wanted to be a cowgirl... But, you know, it was pointed out to me that, you know, growing up in Brooklyn, there wasn't much opportunity... for cowgirlery.
‐‐ Susan Isaacs

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.
‐‐ Lyndsy Fonseca

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.
‐‐ Ursula Andress

I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.
‐‐ Anna Sui

I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.
‐‐ Larry Buchanan

I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.
‐‐ Diane Ladd

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.
‐‐ James McAvoy

I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.
‐‐ Charice Pempengco

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.
‐‐ Christopher Atkins

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.
‐‐ Debi Thomas

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.
‐‐ Sophia Bush

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.
‐‐ Jennifer Lawrence

I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.
‐‐ Christopher Parker

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy

I wanted to be a farmer's wife. I thought it would be quite fun to wake up of a morning, collect eggs and have sheep and pigs as pets. I know now that it would also involve having to sleep with the farmer, but at the time I wasn't thinking about the sexual implications - I was 11.
‐‐ Miranda Hart

I wanted to be a fashion designer.
‐‐ Heidi Klum

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.
‐‐ Kirsty Gallacher

I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.
‐‐ Tyra Banks

I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal.
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'
‐‐ Denis Leary