“I didn't take care of the kids. I took care of the interior decoration of the house. I wanted to be an architect, so I curated that aspect of things. In the middle of the chaos, I moved things around and rearranged everything to find my order.” CareKidsWantedOrderHouseMiddleAspectMovedChaosTake CareArchitectInteriorsDecoration Author:Giovanna Cau
“I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh. I started out young just making my family laugh and trying to make kids laugh in school and getting into plays. I think it's the only thing I know how to do so hopefully it works out.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingPlayKidsWantedSchoolYoungLaughingKnow HowComedyMy FamilyWork OutHopefullyMaking People Laugh Author:Jillian Bell
“Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.” IfsFirstsKidsWantedSchoolDadBandGuitarBeing Cool Author:Julian Lennon
“I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.” LittlesKidsWantedSchoolActorsDramaLateLittle KidCarnegieCarnegie Mellon Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the family look special and making my mother feel better and I really wanted to make people happy. That has been my ministry my whole life. I call it The Church of F.F.C. - The Church of Freedom From Concern. And I'm a high priest in that church.” PeopleFeelsLooksHas BeensWholeKidsWantedMotherChurchRoomsSpecialConcernWhole LifeFlightPriestsThrowingEntertainingMinistryFeel BetterStairsLiving RoomMaking People Happy Author:Jim Carrey
“When I was a kid people always asked why I didn't act like the rest of my family, and parents would say, "Well, she needs a childhood! We would never allow her to do that even if she wanted to". They were as involved in my life as any parents are in any person's life.” PeopleIfsNeedsWellsPersonsKidsWantedParentChildhoodInvolvedMy Family Author:Blake Lively
“When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.” WorldWritingYearsWarStoriesBodyBigsKidsWantedMy FavoriteScaryVersionsWar Of The WorldsNightmareInvasionPals Author:David Gerrold
“I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.” DifferentSelfKidsWantedYoungPerspectiveImmigrantsBeing Different Author:Gloria Estefan
“I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It’s happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn’t stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time.” ChildrenPersonsKidsWantedSchoolThreeViewsLaughingOur LivesHappenedCarMetsYesterdayGreat TimesBradAmazing Person Author:Angelina Jolie
“My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.” IfsEndsKidsAgeTodayWantedNightBitsDrinkingFinishedAlcoholStayingMumAll NightDiscouraging Author:George Harrison
“I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.” PeoplePhilosophyKidsWantedViewsConservativeLibertarianAnnoyedLeftistsUltras Author:Clint Eastwood
“I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way. I am so desperately worried about anybody saying, "She cut in line," or "She took our table," or "She doesn't do her own grocery shopping." It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.” WayWellsMatterHardKidsWantedSchoolCertainWaitingLinesMy OwnCuttingTablesTradeWorriedDecentDaily LifeShoppingRespectfulGroceriesSubwayGrocery Shopping Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“Brad [Pitt] and I have never wanted our kids to be actors. We've never talked about it. But, we also want them to be around film and be a part of mommy and daddy's life, and for it not to be kept from it either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.” WantKidsWantedFilmActorsHealthyDaddyGood HealthBradHealthy RelationshipMommy And Daddy Author:Angelina Jolie
“I never wanted to do anything else but fight, when I was a kid. I never had any broader perspective of my own perspective. I didn't know anything about anything else. I just wanted to fight until I could fight no more, and then I wanted to own a bar and drink and tell war stories.” KnowsWarStoriesKidsWantedFightingMy OwnPerspectiveDrinkBarsWar Stories Author:Mike Tyson
“Interpreting gives me a chance to do what I do well and have done since I was a kid. At one time, I might have wanted to be an actor or performer, and it somehow fulfills that in a non-threatening way.” WayGivingWellsDoneMightKidsWantedActorsChanceGive MePerformersOne TimeThreateningInterpretingGive Me A Chance Author:Jack Jason
“I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer. That's from a young kid. I had all these records from all those famous Opera singers. I wanted to be an Opera singer - that was my whole thing and physical fitness got in the way, thank God.” IfsWayWholeKidsWantedYoungRecordsProfessionSingersThank GodOperaPhysical FitnessOpera Singers Author:Jack LaLanne
“Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never had. I was always traveling. I had tours. I wanted my kids to settle down, and we kind of did it together.... It was a bumpy transition. There was no director telling me what to do. No script, but I really enjoyed it. I even became president of the PTA. Doing the laundry was a meditative experience. Now, when I start to get nervous and stressed, I go in and start to fold towels.” GivingYearsKindKidsWantedTogetherPresidentMomDirectorsNormalYears AgoDown AndScriptsNervousEnjoyedSettlingTransitionFifteenFoldsStressedBeing A MomNormal LifeLaundrySettling DownFifteen YearsTowelsPta Author:Pia Zadora
“I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even then that I wanted to do something of an intellectual nature, and excel at it. I also realized that if I was going to succeed at all, it would be through hard work.” IfsBelieveHardWould BeKidsWantedHard WorkSucceedAmbitionIntellectualMy FriendsClever Author:Irving Sandler
“I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. And I meditate, and one time when I was meditating, I started thinking, "Gee Gail, you love stories -- you read all the time. How come you never tell yourself a story?" While I should have been saying my mantra to myself, I started telling myself a story. It turned out to be an art appreciation book for kids with reproductions of famous artworks and pencil drawings that I did. I tried to get it published and was rejected wholesale.” ThinkingShouldYearsHas BeensArtBookStoriesKidsWantedPaintingShould HaveAppreciationDrawingLove StoryOne TimeRejectedPencilsShould Have BeenMantrasReproductionMeditatingArtworkWholesaleBooks For KidsDrawing And PaintingArt AppreciationGail Author:Gail Carson Levine
“I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.” ThinkingBelieveKidsWantedJobsStuffSportsCommunityCitiesPathMinutesMediaNew YorkFieldsDemandBaseballBallsLeavingHittingGoing OutCatchingSeattleNarrow PathBaseball Field Author:Alex Rodriguez
“I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie.” WorldGivingMadeHappensKidsWantedAmericaGirlGamesRoomsFieldsWallSceneSticksHockeyToysCrewSuggestionsTextureMikeyHockey SticksField Hockey Author:Ang Lee
“My dream was to become a rec league coach. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home and help the kids out and be a coach.” HelpingHomeDreamKidsWantedCoachesLeagueNbaMvp Author:Kevin Durant
“Last but not least my family. My brother Tony, I love you. Thank you for beating me up when I was a kid. I always wanted to follow in your footsteps. I pray for you every night. You’ve taught me to feel confident in myself, believe in myself that I can do it when I didn’t think I could do it. Dad, it’s been an up-and-down road for all of us, but you’ve always been there supporting from afar, texting me Bible verses every single day, telling me you love me every single day. That builds me up and I thank you so much. I love you. I’m just glad you’re part of this journey with us.” ThinkingFeelsBelieveI CanKidsWantedLastsNightCan DoJourneyLove YouTaughtBrotherPrayingMy FamilyGladMy BrotherNbaEvery NightVersesUp And DownI PrayFootstepsI Can Do ItAfarTextingMvpBible VersePraying For You Author:Kevin Durant
“I don't think I've changed very much. I think I'm the same kid that I was when I got here. When I came here all I wanted to do was win games. I wanted to play baseball for LSU and be the ultimate team player. That's all I want to do. If we don't end up being the last team to win the game at the end of the year then I won't be happy. That's all I'm worried about this year.” IfsThinkingWantYearsEndsPlayKidsWantedLastsGamesWinningPlayerTeamChangedUltimateBaseballWorriedTigersTeam PlayerLsuI've Changed Author:Alex Bregman
“Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.” IfsWantStillsPlayHomeKidsWantedSidesFiveFootballClubsSundayComing HomeMates Author:Kevin Kilbane
“When I was a kid, people wanted to be an astronaut. Today, kids want to be famous, and that's totally the wrong approach. You have to have authenticity in what you're doing. You have to really care about the core message of what you're saying, and then everything else will fall into place.” PeopleWantCareKidsTodayWantedFallApproachMessagesCoreAuthenticityAstronautDoing YouFall Into Place Author:David Copperfield
“When I was kid, yeah, my family, my parents wanted me to marry a Jewish girl because that was what they taught their children, and thought it would be an easier life for me to raise a Jewish kid. And I have a Jewish wife, I have a Jewish kid. They seem pretty happy about it.” ChildrenSeemsWould BeKidsWantedGirlParentWifeTaughtEasierMy FamilyRaisesYeahEasier Life Author:Adam Sandler
“Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at some points sleeping in the street. No money, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. No sex, no relationships, people that didn't love me, didn't care about me, to where I am today... that's successful. When I signed my record deal I always wanted to be respected by my peers for my ability and my skill level.” PeopleSelfCareKidsTodayWantedNextSexSleepAbilityLevelsDealsKnowingSuccessfulRecordsStreetsSkillsAngelDeterminedDustMealsNot KnowingPeersHomelessNo MoneyLive For TodaySleeping In Author:Joe Budden
“I always wanted to write, even before I realized that there was a comedy writers' world, or what that life was like. I never thought of myself, at least as a little kid, in terms of being the onscreen talent. I always thought it'd be so much fun to write sketches and be a writer. Even as little as 6 or 7, that's what my main interest was.” WorldWritingLittlesKidsWantedFunTermInterestComedyTalentI RealizedLittle Kid Author:Mindy Kaling
“I haven't always wanted to be an actor, no. I wasn't one of the little kids that was desperate to be an actor. I did a lot of drama and a lot of music, but it was just something for fun on the side. I was quite shy as a kid and I found a lot of freedom in performing. I never knew you could do it as a job.” LittlesKidsWantedJobsActorsFoundFunSidesHavensDramaPerformingDesperateShyLittle Kid Author:Gemma Chan
“When I was a kid, I was playing in various bands - amateur bands, garage bands, weekend bands, you name it, around the area. At some point, I just wanted to try the whole 'Beatle tribute band' thing, so I found a local band that was doing that.” TryingWholeKidsWantedFoundNamesBandAreasVariousLocalsWeekendTributeGarage Author:Steve Landes
“It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.” RealHardKidsWantedWifeConcernMy WifeMy Wife And KidsLove My Wife Author:Phil Robertson
“My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You know, whether it was BMX bike racing or being in the Boy Scouts or surfing or anything else, she always seemed to sort of support it. And I think it's because she was an immigrant and that idea of sort of having her kids be able to have access to their dreams and whatever they wanted to follow was very important to her.” ThinkingKnowsKindLittlesImportantIdeasDreamKidsAbleWantedParentBoysSupportCrazyMomMy MomAccessImmigrantsRacingBikeSupportiveSurfingCrazy ThingsBoy ScoutBmx Author:Terry Gross
“Ive always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.” PeopleWorldDifferentShowsKidsWantedSixDecidedShow MeMake Me Happy Author:Daniella Alonso
“As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.” KidsWantedDressesIdolsLike Her Author:Devin Kelley
“As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.” KidsWantedPossibilityLatterRidingAstronautElevatorsCartoonist Author:Bill Watterson
“When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.” KidsWantedStarsRocksSpyRock StarDetectives Author:Jill Sobule
“I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started doing stand up shows. Once I realized that I was good at it I quit college and left although I had six months left. I went to England. I could have done the last six months but I realized that I was better at standup comedy than I was at singing opera.” LittlesDoneShowsKidsWantedLastsLeftComedyCollegeMonthsSixSingingEnglandUniversityI RealizedQuittingComedianOperaSix MonthsLittle KidI Quit Author:Jim Jefferies
“I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.” ThinkingKidsWantedUsedGoalGrowing UpGrowingFeetBallsFatsSoccerGoalkeepersFat Kid Author:Hope Solo
“When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no one.” KnowsKidsWantedScientistMadMad Scientist Author:Tim Burton
“There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians.” WantMayLittlesFactsKidsWantedFoundGrowing UpGrowingBloodPrideDegreesNativeNative AmericanCowboyLittle KidWayne Author:Johnny Depp
“Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.” WritingKindMadeEndsPlayKidsWantedThreeTermInterestCreativityRocksBandDecidedSingersNeighborhoodRock Bands Author:Dennis Cooper
“I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.” LittlesHomeKidsWantedSchoolComedyDramaDirectorsSummerHigh SchoolSpendingCaliforniaNeighborhoodTwelveFifteenCousinSixteen Author:Steven Spielberg
“By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.” ThinkingYearsDreamKidsWantedAmericaEasyWalksAchieveColorDutyFameHollywoodProofMagazinesComedianInfluentialAnything And EverythingLiving ProofTime Magazine Author:George Lopez
“I grew up loving action movies and films that were set in supernatural, unimaginable places. So I take being a woman in the film industry who is able to do action movies very seriously because I'm making the kind of movies that I wanted to watch as I was a kid and that inspired me and are the reason as to why I am here.” KindReasonKidsAbleActionWantedFilmWatchesGrewIndustryGrew UpInspiredBeing A WomanFilm IndustryUnimaginableAction Movie Author:Zoe Saldana
“I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.” WholeKidsWantedJobsActorsMy OwnActingResponsibilityCreativityUniversityI RealizedWhole LifeQuittingDepressingTaking ResponsibilityI QuitReally Depressing Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, Ive wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?” KidsWantedDadSetups Author:Maksim Chmerkovskiy
“As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.” KidsWantedStuffAdventurousMischievous Author:Tyler Blackburn
“I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didnt fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.” WayChildrenSelfKidsAgeWantedCertainFitUniqueBiggerDefenseJuniorsSelf DefenseJunior HighMingling Author:John Cena