All Quotes

I wanted to be a radio announcer.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be a rebel so badly.
‐‐ Shamir

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.
‐‐ Dee Snider

I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.
‐‐ Shelby Lynne

I wanted to be a rock star.
‐‐ Craig Ferguson

I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late '80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.
‐‐ Eric Whitacre

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
‐‐ Katey Sagal

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.
‐‐ Terri Windling

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
‐‐ Yann Arthus-Bertrand

I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.
‐‐ Andrea Barrett

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
‐‐ David Byrne

I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!
‐‐ Ike Barinholtz

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.
‐‐ Maggie Smith

I wanted to be a serious actress rather than a pretty face.
‐‐ Jane Seymour

I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.
‐‐ Judi Dench

I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

I wanted to be a singer, but once I started acting, I felt so comfortable. Now, all I want to do is act.
‐‐ Lily-Rose Depp

I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.
‐‐ Adele

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.
‐‐ Eduardo Galeano

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.
‐‐ Jake Epstein

I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.
‐‐ John Oliver

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.
‐‐ Tim Howard

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.
‐‐ Dick Schaap

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.
‐‐ Kevin Whately

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
‐‐ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to be a star - with a purpose.
‐‐ Laurieann Gibson

I wanted to be a story teller so badly.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

I wanted to be a stuntman. I didn't really want to be an actor. I took classes when I was younger, but I really sucked.
‐‐ Osric Chau

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.
‐‐ Joseph Murray

I wanted to be a teacher.
‐‐ Kim Kardashian

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
‐‐ Ann Bancroft

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California.
‐‐ Gloria Stuart

I wanted to be a tough kid, so I thought, 'I'm going to move to New York, and I'm going to be a thug when I come out of there.'
‐‐ Jonny Weston

I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.
‐‐ Alfred Lin

I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since.
‐‐ Hillary Scott

I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.
‐‐ Brian Posehn

I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.
‐‐ Jenna Ushkowitz

I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
‐‐ Amy Hempel

I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.
‐‐ Amy Lee

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.
‐‐ Nina Bawden

I wanted to be a world champion.
‐‐ Manny Pacquiao

I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.
‐‐ Jeffrey Zeldman

I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'
‐‐ Yves Behar

I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.
‐‐ Anthony Marra

I wanted to be a writer, but I kind of wanted to be a fiction writer someday, like 20 - 25 years down the line. I never thought I'd write a nonfiction memoir about Iraq.
‐‐ Matt Gallagher

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.
‐‐ Kurt Busiek

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
‐‐ B. J. Novak

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.
‐‐ Tim Cahill

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.
‐‐ Ernest Gaines

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
‐‐ Ellen Bass

I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.
‐‐ James Frey

I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I wanted to go faster that way.
‐‐ Jeffrey Skoll