All Quotes

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

I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.
‐‐ Jerry Yang

I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.
‐‐ Linda Evans

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.
‐‐ Alexis Korner

I wanted to be able to say I was a Marine.
‐‐ Loretta Reynolds

I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.
‐‐ Jack White

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.
‐‐ Jenny Holzer

I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
‐‐ Jack Gleeson

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.
‐‐ Bryan Brown

I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean?
‐‐ Martin Freeman

I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.
‐‐ Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor

I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.
‐‐ Fran Kranz

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.
‐‐ Lou Reed

I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
‐‐ Zach Gilford

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
‐‐ Stanley Tucci

I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.
‐‐ Delta Burke

I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.
‐‐ Eleanor Mondale

I wanted to be an actress. I wanted to be known. Yes, it's difficult sometimes. I believe that if you're going to be in a profession like this, which is so open to criticism, to speculation, you need to have people around you who will believe in you and stand by you.
‐‐ Katrina Kaif

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.
‐‐ Christine Lahti

I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it.
‐‐ Robert Battle

I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.
‐‐ Stanley Tucci

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
‐‐ Boyd Holbrook

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
‐‐ Evan Hunter

I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.
‐‐ Soleil Moon Frye

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
‐‐ Richard Branson

I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school and saying I wanted to be a professional athlete and the teacher replying, 'You're not going to make it; it's not possible.'
‐‐ Alistair Brownlee

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.
‐‐ John Krasinski

I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now.' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong.
‐‐ Michael Palin

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
‐‐ David Antin

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.
‐‐ Grace Gummer

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.
‐‐ Imran Khan

I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.
‐‐ Edward VIII

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
‐‐ Dirk Benedict

I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.
‐‐ Karen Gillan

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.
‐‐ Debbie Reynolds

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.
‐‐ Rick Allen

I wanted to be as genuine as possible because all those people like Jimmie Lee Jackson - me, Mike Brown, all these people - we're all the same; we're not much different.
‐‐ Keith Stanfield

I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I'm writing about.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine