All Quotes

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.
‐‐ John Otway

I wanted to be a jockey.
‐‐ Davy Jones

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.
‐‐ Jamie Bell

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
‐‐ Bill Nighy

I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
‐‐ Deborah Moggach

I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I don't know why.
‐‐ Louis Garrel

I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.
‐‐ Ashley Greene

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.
‐‐ Jorja Fox

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.
‐‐ David Alan Grier

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'
‐‐ Diane Mott Davidson

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.
‐‐ Scott Thompson

I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.
‐‐ Cobie Smulders

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.
‐‐ Chris Daughtry

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.
‐‐ Eric Bana

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.
‐‐ January Jones

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.
‐‐ Lindsay Lohan

I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.
‐‐ Israel Broussard

I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to be a superstar. I wanted to be on stage. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away, and you're hit with reality, and you're like, 'Oh, not everyone can be Lil' Bow Wow?' Fine.
‐‐ Lilly Singh

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.
‐‐ Roger Bannister

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.
‐‐ Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.
‐‐ Alice Sebold

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!
‐‐ Pat Barker

I wanted to be a painter.
‐‐ Max Cannon

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
‐‐ Aaron Huey

I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a child when I was in high school, so I kind of had that work phase in my life.
‐‐ Colleen Atwood

I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.
‐‐ Rickey Henderson

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.
‐‐ Tia Carrere

I wanted to be a part of the first 'Twilight' movie, and unfortunately, it didn't work out so great. So when they came back and were like, 'Do you want to come in for a part for the second movie,' I was like, 'Absolutely.'
‐‐ Jamie Campbell Bower

I wanted to be a performer, not someone who introduced other performers.
‐‐ Brian Dunkleman

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.
‐‐ Steve Lacy

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.
‐‐ Hussein Chalayan

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.
‐‐ Graham Brown

I wanted to be a plumber.
‐‐ Robert Goulet

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd

I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives - each project can involve years of research.
‐‐ James Marsh

I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!
‐‐ Doreen Cronin

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.
‐‐ Eliza Dushku

I wanted to be a Priest at one point. I was pretty religious. I was an altar boy, and I was good at it. Then, I started meeting girls and I'm like 'You know, maybe I shouldn't be a Priest.'
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.
‐‐ Dan Savage

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.
‐‐ Giancarlo Stanton

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
‐‐ Balthazar Getty

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.
‐‐ Mae Jemison

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.
‐‐ Jacqueline Emerson

I wanted to be a quarterback. I used to like Johnny Unitas, the old quarterback for the Colts.
‐‐ Julian Castro

I wanted to be a race car driver when I was a kid.
‐‐ Alfie Allen