Ron Howard
Related I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of differen... HAYDEN PANETTIERE JASON BATEMAN JACKIE CHAN CARA DELEVINGNE Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything. JENNIFER COOLIDGE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entit... DHANI HARRISON LIAM NEESON EMMA DONOGHUE JEAN-LUC GODARD I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a fi... MATTHEW REILLY DEMETRI MARTIN I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be... CHRISTOPHER PARKER SOFIA VERGARA Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite fran... JAKE OWEN GOLDA MEIR BRUCE WILLIS I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw... DANTE FERRETTI WILLIE AAMES Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI When I was a little kid, I wanted to be, like, you know, a movie star, you know? Or, I always have i... TOMMY WISEAU I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedbac... ADAM OATES I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. ... DEE DEE RAMONE BRENDON URIE Artwise, I'm kind of a chameleon. I don't have an established style or anything like that. JONATHAN HICKMAN GERARD BUTLER GAIL CARSON LEVINE WILLIE AAMES BLAKE SHELTON ELLEN BARKIN JOHN BERRYMAN To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy HENRY N. BEARD TOM ROBBINS I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a ... MAMIE VAN DOREN In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I di... B.O.B I would love to have a drink with Meryl Streep or Prince. Those are my top two people I would love t... NADINE VELAZQUEZ Acting is very personal. I don't want to be like anybody else. There are positions I would like ... CATHERINE MARY STEWART ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I wou... SAM DONALDSON I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo... CONSTANCE WU DAPHNE ZUNIGA BARBARA EHRENREICH GEORGE MICHAEL My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigr... NARCISO RODRIGUEZ I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it&... ABBEY CLANCY JANE GOODALL It wasn't that I knew Kyrie wanted to be traded or not, or him and LeBron had a beef. I don'... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I though... RORY KINNEAR I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their ... JOHN C. MCGINLEY I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James De... DANE DEHAAN YUVRAJ SINGH When I was little, I wanted to be a spy or a monster truck driver. Later, I just thought movies woul... ERIK PER SULLIVAN JASON STATHAM I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lo... BARKHAD ABDI C.S. LEWIS LANA DEL REY JANEANE GAROFALO When I was little, I didn't have dreams to be an actress or a star; I wanted to be a mom, have a... SHERILYN FENN JOE WRIGHT I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I did... MEREDITH MONK I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people. ZOE WANAMAKER HARRISON FORD FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good... JOHN MILIUS SUGAR RAY LEONARD I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the contro... JEFF KINNEY ARJUN KAPOOR There are lots of procedural shows that I love, but I never really wanted to be a doctor on 'E.R... STEPHEN MOYER GENE SIMMONS I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I... ERIC WHITACRE GEORGE LUCAS When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the cir... ERIC STONESTREET EDDIE REDMAYNE MICHELLE OBAMA AMY CHUA MICHAEL BUBLE My mother loved movies, and I loved movies like she loved movies. So I wanted to do that. I'd se... ANNE MEARA CARA DELEVINGNE I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. RITA COOLIDGE ALBERT BROOKS OLIVIA WILLIAMS I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro! RUSSELL TOVEY If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like tha... MAGDI YACOUB HARRISON FORD QUENTIN TARANTINO ZAHA HADID There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offere... BARRY HUMPHRIES You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a fo... MICHAEL OWEN GILLIAN JACOBS I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy k... BARRY JENKINS When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn... JODY WILLIAMS What I loved about myself as a teenager is that I didn't know any better to be afraid or to be i... MAGGIE CAREY BRAD PITT There are a lot of actors whom I love, who personalize their work. I want to know everything about t... KEVIN CORRIGAN B. B. KING ERIC CLAPTON DAVID MORRISSEY JOAN RIVERS Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or ... RICHARD CORLISS
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RON WOOD RON CHERNOW RON CHERNOW RON CHERNOW RON CHERNOW RON CHERNOW RON CHERNOW RON PAUL Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing. RON BLOMBERG Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther Ki... RON FOURNIER RON JOHNSON RON DESANTIS Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days follow... RON FOURNIER When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up. RON ZIEGLER RON CHERNOW RON WHITE RON WHITE There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know ... RON WOOD RON JAWORSKI It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated ... RON FOURNIER President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged... RON FOURNIER RON PERLMAN RON PERLMAN A small profit it better than a big loss RON RASH Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authenti... RON FOURNIER Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You s... RON EGLASH You don't have power if you surrender all your principles -- you have office. RON TODD But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need... RON RASH RON WHITE RON PAUL RON CHERNOW RON HALL RON LUCIANO RON JAWORSKI RON BROWN Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. RON BLOMBERG RON CHERNOW Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us. RON CARLSON More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures ... RON KIND I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life. RON CARLSON RON PAUL RON DESANTIS RON DESANTIS RON LEWIS RON DESANTIS More customers for Canadian oil means that Canadian producers can charge more for their oil, which t... RON WYDEN RON SUSKIND RON LEWIS RON SUSKIND RON LEWIS RON TAFFEL RON CONWAY By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof c... RON FOURNIER RON REAGAN RON PAUL RON JAWORSKI RON SILVER Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African villag... RON EGLASH I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the ... RON EGLASH Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregna... RON FOURNIER It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to... 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