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“I wanted to be a lot of things. There were a million things I wanted to do. I still do. Acting is one of the good ways of doing it you know, because you can be all those things.”

Acting

Author:Lauren Hutton

“I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.”

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Author:Cobie Smulders

“I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.”

“I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.”

Art Wanted Film Stars Teenager Martial Arts Film Stars Art Films

Author:Chris Daughtry

“I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.”

Should Said Done Wanted School Jobs Car Son Dad My Dad Finished Quitting Hobbies Mechanic Stay In School

Author:Eric Bana

“I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist”

Wanted Marine Biologist Marine Biologist Meteorologists

Author:January Jones

“I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.”

Wanted Girl Lost Interest Bigger Missionary Priesthood

Author:James McAvoy

“I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.”

Shows Wanted Models Nurse Show Business

Author:Shirley Bassey

“I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.”

Wanted Used Actors Stars Used To Be Movie Movie Star

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.”

Play Wanted Forever Musical Actresses Theatre Musical Theatre

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.”

Wanted Actors Talent Musician Decided

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.”

Dream Wanted Industry Musician Entertainment Drummer Guitarist Entertainment Industry

Author:Israel Broussard

“I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write music, and I didn’t know what I was doing and I never had the technique or understanding of it... But I’ve always played the piano and I can improvise on the piano, but the problem is that I can’t write down what I write. I can read music but I can’t write numbers.”

Knows Writing I Can Play Problem Wanted Felt Understanding Musician Technique Limitation Piano I Can Read

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.”

Humans Important Wanted Sports Difficult Psychology Behavior Aspect Medicine Affair Athlete Links Aggression Intriguing Neurologists

Author:Roger Bannister

“I wanted to be a nobleman; I bought a name and a title... Oh, nothing is impossible with five million a year.”

Years Wanted Names Class Millions Five Impossible Titles Nothing Is Impossible Noblemen

Author:Eugene Sue

“I wanted to be a normal teenager who talked with her best friend about normal things like friends and boys and school. But the pas de deux was always there, reminding me that my pretense was just that: a final act before the curtain fell on my life.”

Mental Health Dance Metaphor Mental Illness Ocd

Author:Shala Nicely

Source: Is Fred in the Refrigerator?: Taming OCD and Reclaiming My Life

“I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.”

People Wanted School Beautiful Growing Up Saws Growing Catholic Fantastic Nun Superstar Superhuman Catholic School

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.”

Art Wanted Artist Interesting Musical Painter Works Of Art Associates

Author:Gunther Schuller

“I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.”

Kids Wanted Growing Up Growing One Thing Painter

Author:Andy Serkis

“I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.”

Wanted Pops Painter Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionism

Author:Aaron Huey

“I wanted to be a painter.”

Wanted Painter

Author:Max Cannon

“I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.”

People Wanted Artist Order Vision Hero Corners Devoted Cult Very Deep My Hero Vision Of Life Pariahs

Author:Jim Woodring

“I wanted to be a part of an ensemble cast. It's such a wonderful, beautiful thing to be in a comedy where you're working and watching amazing actors, working with amazing material, and you're able to jump in and bounce off it.”

Beautiful Comedy Wonderful Beautiful Things

Author:Danny Pudi

“I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.”

Writing Kind Wanted Political Attitude Teacher Teaching Recorders

Author:Howard Zinn

“I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.”

Wanted Special Exciting League Contributing Something Special

Author:Rickey Henderson

“I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.”

Wanted

Author:Tia Carrere

“I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.”

Wanted Renaissance Downtown

Author:Thomas Reid

“I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.”

Way Giving Wanted White Nice Calm Locals Coats Pharmacist White Coat

Author:Walter Matthau

“I wanted to be a physician, but that was not my ultimate goal. My ultimate goal was to find joy and happiness in the service of others.”

Inspirational Philosophy Happiness Quotes Goals Debasish Mridha Debasish Mridha Md Service Of Others Find Joy

Author:Debasish Mridha

“I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.”

Wanted Pianist

Author:Steve Lacy

“I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.”

Parent Creative Architecture

Author:Hussein Chalayan

“I wanted to be a playwright in college. That's what I was interested in and that's what I was moving toward, and then I had the lucky accident of falling in love with film. I was 19 or 20 that I realized films are made by people. Shooting digitally became cheaper and better. You couldn't make something that looked like a Hollywood film, but you could make something through which you could work out ideas. I was acting, but I was also conceiving the plots and operating the camera when I wasn't onscreen. I got very unvain about film acting, and it became a sort of graduate school for me.”

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Author:Greta Gerwig

“I wanted to be a plumber.”

Wanted Plumber

Author:Robert Goulet

“I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.”

Wanted Artist Too Much Poet Lazy Frightened Drank

Author:Peter Blegvad

“I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.”

Littles Important Wanted Three Interest Fiction Poet Elements Biographies

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I liked how they dressed and acted, but I didn't really acknowledge that I only liked reading some bits of poetry while I was peeing or something.”

Mean Ideas Wanted Reading Bits Parent Poet Acknowledge Really Romantic

Author:Lena Dunham

“I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.”

Kind Bigs Wanted School Political Found Stars Tvs Professors Movie Star Boston Political Science

Author:Eliza Dushku

“I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~”

Ifs Want Writing Wanted Stars Born Politician Movie Star Can't Change

Author:Gore Vidal

“I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre.”

People Wanted Acting Audience Player Fronts Performances Pressure Grateful Response Theatre Performing Volleyball Volleyball Player

Author:Dan Payne

“I wanted to be a professional baseball player.”

Wanted Player Baseball Baseball Player

Author:Balthazar Getty

“I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.”

Wanted Periods Paid Dancing Dancer Choreography

Author:Mae Jemison

“I wanted to be a professional drummer.”

Wanted Drummer

Author:Walter Payton

“I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.”

Hard Would Be Wanted Actresses Singers

Author:Jacqueline Emerson

“I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.”

Believe Wanted Higher Wake Up Criminals Lawyer Stakes Prosecutor Criminal Law

Author:Preet Bharara

“I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.”

Wanted Next Psychological Best Things Engineers Facility

Author:Isaac Asimov

Source: Foundation

“I wanted to be a psychologist. You know, I thought that's what I'd be doing and it just goes to show you that, if you tell God your plans, He will laugh in your face.”

Ifs Knows Shows Wanted Faces Laughing Plans Your Face Psychologist

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“I wanted to be a quarterback. I used to like Johnny Unitas, the old quarterback for the Colts.”

Wanted Used Quarterback Colts

Author:Julian Castro

“I wanted to be a radio announcer.”

Wanted Radio Announcers

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I wanted to be a real writer, you can put it this way, but I was lazy. So I thought that cinema would be funnier because it's collective, and it's crazy, and it's chaotic, and also because I was based in Spain. So I said it will be easy to make a career of that - because all the other filmmakers there are very bad. And it will be funny at the same time. So this was the point. It will be funnier, easier, and maybe at the end there will be some unknown beauty, and maybe on the way we'll create the dream that a different logic is possible for life.”

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Author:Albert Serra

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