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ANITA DIAMENT When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.
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The sad thing is, I never wanted to be Princess Leia - I always wanted to be Han Solo!
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I wanted to be a Broadway star when I was younger. I wanted to sing and dance until I realized I was...
MICHELLE BRANCH![]()
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa...
TANITH LEE I thought I'd try college and try to find myself. At 45 years old, I wanted to see what I really wan...
BETTY GARDNER![]()
I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be an...
CHARLES MANSON I always wanted to be a 'Blue Peter' presenter when I grew up!
SOPHIE ALDRED Some girls want to be a princess when they grow up. I wanted to be in a bad bitch girl gang.
NATALIA KILLS![]()
I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologis...
WILLIE AAMES![]()
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what i told everybody i was g...
CHESTER BENNINGTON![]()
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I w...
CHESTER BENNINGTON When I was a kid, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was easy - the next...
ANGIE THOMAS 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've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think...
CHRISTOPHER JUDGE I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying becau...
JOHN RITTER![]()
I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want ...
JAMAICA KINCAID I think you could probably say [he wanted to be a celebrity] at birth,
DEBORAH DAVIS![]()
Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be ...
BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS![]()
Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be...
BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS![]()
I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.
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I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a gi...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG By a lot of people's standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I ...
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If i wanted to become a monk, I would have ultimately become the Bishop.If i wanted to become a sold...
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If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi...
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I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.
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IAN MCKELLEN Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I a...
RAY PARK I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride'...
MACKENZIE DAVIS![]()
I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But th...
JOHN WATERS I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it...
SAM ABELL I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An ...
JOHN SAYLES I began dancing when I was just 5, and I never really wanted to become an actress because it's what ...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ![]()
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi...
VIN DIESEL![]()
Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
RACHEL WARD I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I ...
RACHEL WARD![]()
Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but tha...
IAN MCKELLEN 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![]()
I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that we...
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With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do,...
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I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.
DAVID GUTERSON My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.
JANET EVANOVICH If he'd been away at college, I probably wouldn't have let him bring them home. But since he's been ...
JUDY WEBSTER I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
AMY HEMPEL I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; wh...
DANIEL BOULUD I wanted to be around a 4:50, but I was happy with this. Sometimes (being pushed) helps me. I probab...
LEAH GINGRICH I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almos...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE![]()
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre ...
PAWAN KALYAN I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy,...
EVA ZEISEL The Air Force was confused about what it wanted me to be when I grew up. I applied for an ROTC schol...
BRIAN CASTNER When I was growing up and going to races, I always admired and looked up to Bob. I wanted to drive a...
CHAD REITZ![]()
Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to ...
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE![]()
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALL I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lyi...
JOHN RITTER![]()
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
RAY CHARLES I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing...
RICHARD LEWIS![]()
I feel like a princess with a knife. I've wanted to be an Iron Chef forever.
ALEX GUARNASCHELLI![]()
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
RICHARD AVEDON![]()
It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of 'The Little Mermaid,' and I loved that ...
BEBE REXHA I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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LUCAS TILL When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I...
ROSIE HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY If I said what I wanted to say right now I'd probably be in bigger trouble than Todd. All I can say ...
RICHARD CHILDRESS![]()
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everythin...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA That's the one thing I wanted that I left out of my coaching career. I never won a state title. I wa...
DAVID MARSH because I wanted to still be creative when I was very, very pregnant. I never wanted to make a solo ...
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to ...
ADAM DEVINE![]()
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was ...
ELIZABETH DEBICKI I never wanted there to be one (a service) because I never wanted to believe she was gone. But I hav...
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I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I g...
KEITH HARING I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.
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JANA NOVOTNA![]()
I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singe...
REBECCA DE MORNAY![]()
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
RAY PRINCE![]()
I never wanted to be a God fearing person. I wanted to grow up and be a person that was fearless for...
SHANNON L. ALDER![]()
I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.
RICK RIORDAN I'm from Ohio, and I wasn't one of those kids who grew up making movies or whatever, but I a...
DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an...
CALEB CARR I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
WALTER HAGEN It's coming home to finish what I started. I left coaching, but I've never left the game of football...
ART SHELL 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 never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY I think we will become good neighbors, but it probably won't be in my lifetime. It will be up to you...
ADRIAN LOWE![]()
But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an ...
DEMETRI MARTIN I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I ...
AMANDA BYNES I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage ac...
LAURA LINNEY ill treat you like a princess not because you deserve it but because every time i look at you its wh...
PEDRO MAGALHAES I was in one big rush, that's probably why I'm taking so long. I should have just taken my time in S...
YORVIT TORREALBA He's a good competitor. I probably should've gotten him out a little early, but I just wanted to see...
LARRY BEETS I was setting in class and got a text message. I wanted to jump up and scream, but realized I probab...
JEFF BUTTS![]()
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be fam...
J. K. ROWLING![]()
I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respect...
CAITLIN MORAN You know, I've always wanted to do dramas. When I moved to L.A., that was my dream, because I ne...
SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT
ANITA DIAMENT When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.
WATKIN TUDOR JONES
I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up. SAM HUNT
I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me... ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT
The sad thing is, I never wanted to be Princess Leia - I always wanted to be Han Solo! KATEE SACKHOFF
When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedr... MIRANDA JULY
I wanted to be a Broadway star when I was younger. I wanted to sing and dance until I realized I was... MICHELLE BRANCH
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa... TANITH LEE I thought I'd try college and try to find myself. At 45 years old, I wanted to see what I really wan...
BETTY GARDNER
I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be an... CHARLES MANSON I always wanted to be a 'Blue Peter' presenter when I grew up!
SOPHIE ALDRED Some girls want to be a princess when they grow up. I wanted to be in a bad bitch girl gang.
NATALIA KILLS
I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologis... WILLIE AAMES
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what i told everybody i was g... CHESTER BENNINGTON
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I w... CHESTER BENNINGTON When I was a kid, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was easy - the next...
ANGIE THOMAS 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've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think...
CHRISTOPHER JUDGE I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying becau...
JOHN RITTER
I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want ... JAMAICA KINCAID I think you could probably say [he wanted to be a celebrity] at birth,
DEBORAH DAVIS
Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be ... BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS
Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be... BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS
I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be. DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.
CAROLE KING
I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a gi... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG By a lot of people's standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I ...
CATHERINE TATE
If i wanted to become a monk, I would have ultimately become the Bishop.If i wanted to become a sold... PABLO PICASSO
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... VIN DIESEL
I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could. CAROLINE RHEA
Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but tha... IAN MCKELLEN Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I a...
RAY PARK I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride'...
MACKENZIE DAVIS
I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But th... JOHN WATERS I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it...
SAM ABELL I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An ...
JOHN SAYLES I began dancing when I was just 5, and I never really wanted to become an actress because it's what ...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... VIN DIESEL
Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
RACHEL WARD I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I ...
RACHEL WARD
Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but tha... IAN MCKELLEN 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
I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that we... ARIEL LEVY
With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do,... CHRIS BROWN
I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave. DAVID GUTERSON My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.
JANET EVANOVICH If he'd been away at college, I probably wouldn't have let him bring them home. But since he's been ...
JUDY WEBSTER I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
AMY HEMPEL I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; wh...
DANIEL BOULUD I wanted to be around a 4:50, but I was happy with this. Sometimes (being pushed) helps me. I probab...
LEAH GINGRICH I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almos...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre ... PAWAN KALYAN I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy,...
EVA ZEISEL The Air Force was confused about what it wanted me to be when I grew up. I applied for an ROTC schol...
BRIAN CASTNER When I was growing up and going to races, I always admired and looked up to Bob. I wanted to drive a...
CHAD REITZ
Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to ... JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist. JANE GOODALL I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lyi...
JOHN RITTER
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. RAY CHARLES I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing...
RICHARD LEWIS
I feel like a princess with a knife. I've wanted to be an Iron Chef forever. ALEX GUARNASCHELLI
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer. RICHARD AVEDON
It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of 'The Little Mermaid,' and I loved that ... BEBE REXHA I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
YOUNG JEEZY
Most actors are like, 'I want to be more like Marlon Brando.' But when I was a little kid, I... LUCAS TILL When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I...
ROSIE HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY If I said what I wanted to say right now I'd probably be in bigger trouble than Todd. All I can say ...
RICHARD CHILDRESS
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everythin... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA That's the one thing I wanted that I left out of my coaching career. I never won a state title. I wa...
DAVID MARSH because I wanted to still be creative when I was very, very pregnant. I never wanted to make a solo ...
KATHY VALENTINE
I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to ... ADAM DEVINE
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was ...
ELIZABETH DEBICKI I never wanted there to be one (a service) because I never wanted to believe she was gone. But I hav...
CATHERINE HENDERSON
I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I g... KEITH HARING I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.
GREGORY HINES I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was ...
JANA NOVOTNA
I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singe...
REBECCA DE MORNAY
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now. RAY PRINCE
I never wanted to be a God fearing person. I wanted to grow up and be a person that was fearless for... SHANNON L. ALDER
I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit. RICK RIORDAN I'm from Ohio, and I wasn't one of those kids who grew up making movies or whatever, but I a...
DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an...
CALEB CARR I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
WALTER HAGEN It's coming home to finish what I started. I left coaching, but I've never left the game of football...
ART SHELL 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 never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY I think we will become good neighbors, but it probably won't be in my lifetime. It will be up to you...
ADRIAN LOWE
But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an ... DEMETRI MARTIN I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I ...
AMANDA BYNES I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage ac...
LAURA LINNEY ill treat you like a princess not because you deserve it but because every time i look at you its wh...
PEDRO MAGALHAES I was in one big rush, that's probably why I'm taking so long. I should have just taken my time in S...
YORVIT TORREALBA He's a good competitor. I probably should've gotten him out a little early, but I just wanted to see...
LARRY BEETS I was setting in class and got a text message. I wanted to jump up and scream, but realized I probab...
JEFF BUTTS
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be fam... J. K. ROWLING
I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respect... CAITLIN MORAN You know, I've always wanted to do dramas. When I moved to L.A., that was my dream, because I ne...
SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT
When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more i... 
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. 
Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand. 