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“I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.”

Writing Firsts Wanted Beautiful Song Girl Found My Own Vision Saved Piano My Sister Cheerleader Beautiful Girl Cheerleading

Author:Paula Cole

“I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'”

Ifs Children Said Wanted Actors Parent Mom My Mom If I Could Auditions Child Actors

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.”

World Way Wanted Citizens Superficial

Author:Robert Fulghum

“I wanted to be a clown when I was a kid, so I love interacting and goofing around with kids.”

Kids Wanted Clown Interacting Goofing Around

Author:Eric Stonestreet

“I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.”

Ifs I Can Wanted Comedian

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“I wanted to be a comedian, I wanted people to laugh at what I was saying, not to be staring at my boobs or wearing a skirt and show off my ... I just didn't think that that was the best way to get taken seriously in that world.”

People Thinking World Way Shows Wanted Laughing Taken Best Way Comedian Staring Skirts Showing Off

Author:Chelsea Handler

“I wanted to be a comedian. I wanted to meet waitresses and felt that being a comedian was my best way to go about it and I was right.”

Way Wanted Felt Best Way Comedian Waitress

Author:Dana Gould

“I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.”

Wanted Games Rooms Heard Listening My Sister Composer Zeppelins Game Changers

Author:Steve Vai

“I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.”

Writing Stills Wanted Found Brain Easier Composer Writing Poetry Writing Music

Author:Shane McCrae

“I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing Couple Halls Concerts Pianist Carnegie Carnegie Hall Accompanists

Author:Kirsten Nelson

“I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15.”

Years Wanted Used Acting Couple Nine Dancer Ballet

Author:Mia Wasikowska

“I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.”

Way Whole Wanted Whole Life Performing Dancer Really Sad

Author:Lyndsy Fonseca

“I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.”

Home Wanted Design Interiors Interior Design Decorators

Author:Ursula Andress

“I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing when you're in the theater because everyone's there to protect the writing. When I had an idea for a film that I really cared about as my own, I wanted to direct it, and then I immediately became interested in directing in and of itself because it's such a deep art. You suddenly have all these tools at your disposal to tell the story.”

Needs Writing Firsts Art Ideas Stories Wanted Film My Own Directors Protect Tools Direct Theater Playwright

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“I wanted to be a disgusting, oozing zombie, not a sexy, cleavage zombie, which is what I was expecting, given my previous film work.”

Wanted Film Given Sexy Expecting Disgusting Zombie Cleavage

Author:Amber Heard

“I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.”

Wanted Stars Montana Disney Channel Hannah Montana

Author:Cara Delevingne

“I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.”

People Problem Wanted Solve Missionary Attorney Colony Leper

Author:Diane Ladd

“I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.”

Ifs Thinking Reality Wanted Grows Growing Up Happened Ambition Beats Areas Doctors Pilots

Author:James McAvoy

“I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.”

Inspirational Wanted Funny Sports Doctors Medicine Sailing Firefighter Sailing And Love Smooth Sailing

Author:Christopher Atkins

“I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work.”

Want Ideas Happens Wanted Jobs Turns Study Trouble Doctors No Idea Going To Work Once Upon A Time

Author:Bill Murray

“I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.”

Wanted Five Doctors

Author:Debi Thomas

“I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.”

Giving Years Might Able Wanted Doctors

Author:Albert Schweitzer

Source: Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography

“I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.”

Firsts Kids Wanted School High School Doctors Theater Requirements Irritated

Author:Sophia Bush

“I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.”

Littles Wanted Blood Doctors Okay Guts

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.”

Wells Kids Wanted Young Actors Needed Doctors Paramedics

Author:Christopher Parker

“I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like "It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years, so I was like "OK, I'll just be a lawyer."”

Years Hard Wanted Mom Doctors My Mom Lawyer

Author:Charice Pempengco

“I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.”

Wanted Courses Fashion College London Journalism Journalist Promotion

Author:Kirsty Gallacher

“I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.”

World Giving Important Wanted Teacher This World Grades Take Me Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Steve Wozniak

“I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.”

Wanted Film Television Producers Film And Television

Author:Tyra Banks

“I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.”

Men Want Writing Bigs Wanted Film Students Comfort Directors Cooks Budgets Colleagues Film Students

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“I wanted to be a filmmaker, actually, when I was in high school and college. But I just decided it would be more expensive to do, so I sort of decided music would be more fun.”

Would Be Wanted School Fun College High School Decided Filmmaker Expensive

Author:Will Sheff

“I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.”

Inspirational Dream Wanted Sports Player Football Basketball Nba Football Player Playing Basketball

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.”

Long Wanted Stuff Study Long Time Scientist Forensics

Author:Bex Taylor-Klaus

“I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal.”

Wanted Causes Goal Figures College Engineers Sequence Viruses Cardio Replication

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I wanted to be a good girl, so I tried to control myself. I chose a personality, a body, a faith, and a sexuality so tiny I had to hold my breath to fit myself inside.”

Faith Women Feminism Sexuality Girls Conformity Making Yourself Small

Author:Glennon Doyle

Source: Untamed

“I wanted to be a graphic designer from the time I was 15, without ever having actually met one. I lived in the mid-west, not in a media centre, and I didn't know anyone who did that for a living. It took me a while to find out what that thing I wanted to do was actually called, but once I sorted that out I got really interested in it.”

Knows Wanted Media Mets West Designer Centre Graphic Graphic Designer

Author:Michael Bierut

“I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.”

Book Wanted School Parent White Cold Gold Slave South Library Eight British South Africa Showers Hunters Public School Rotten Traders

Author:Wilbur Smith

“I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'”

Said Wanted School Used Player Grew Terrible Basketball Grew Up Court Hockey Hockey Player Basketball Court

Author:Denis Leary

“I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.”

Wanted Stars Huge

Author:John Otway

“I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.”

Way Life Enough Wanted Three Acting Cities Destiny Failing College Needed Involved Directors My Friends Jazz University Credit Cinema Grades Good Enough Gym Involvement Involving Pianist

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“I wanted to be a jockey.”

Wanted Jockeys

Author:Davy Jones

“I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.”

Firsts Wanted Serious Dad First Time My Family Horse My Dad Performing Jockeys

Author:Janet Jackson

“I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.”

Long Wanted Long Time Journalist

Author:Jamie Bell

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

Wanted Beautiful Rain Journalist Beautiful Women Glamorous

Author:Bill Nighy

“I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.”

World Country Home Wanted Found Sea Kings Right Now New World Misty

Author:Cressida Cowell

“I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.”

Knows Wanted Jobs Lawyer

Author: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.”

Want Play Wanted Lawyer I Realized Thank God

Author:Ashley Greene

“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.”

Stills I Can Play Wanted Next Rocks Band Singers Tone Rock N Roll Deaf Next Life

Author:Jorja Fox

“I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.”

Men Wanted Black Doctors Lawyer Policemen

Author:David Alan Grier

“I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.”

Age Wanted Young Memories Taken Reader Becoming Library Locals Logical Young Age Librarian Booksellers

Author:Michael Scott

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