“I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.” TryingAgeWantedSchoolYoungNamesParentComedyFitLateAccentsYoung AgeTrying To Fit In Author:Nasim Pedrad
“I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.” KnowsLooksWantedSchoolGirlTeenagerConventionalPretty Girl Author:Lily Cole
“I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.” WantedSchoolGuyFiveTeamCollegeProveSixHigh SchoolComing OutLineman Author:Ndamukong Suh
“I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.” IfsWantedSchoolProcessStupidGeniusSmartHardestAcademicMy ThoughtsHyperThought ProcessI Was Stupid Author:Tucker Max
“I hadn't even thought about what I wanted to do when I left school because I was only 14 when I started modelling.” WantedSchoolLeftModelling Author:Kate Moss
“Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.” WantedSchoolArtistNamesAnimalTeacher Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
“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
“Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!” IfsFirstsHas BeensI CanWantedSchoolYoungPassionCan DoActingMinutesStageHigh SchoolFirst TimeDoctorsTheaterMy PassionFreshmanDay LifeI Can Do This Author:Sophia Bush
“I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and Drama] and it looked like the most fantastic life, but I think not going makes you more free. Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.” ThinkingHumansWantedSchoolFilmActorsWalksTeachStreetsHuman NatureDramaSpeechFantasticOxfordFilm SetBest EducationFantastic Life Author:Rosamund Pike
“I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.” FeelsWantedSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolPoundsGoing AwayOverweight Author:Daphne Oz
“A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.” PeopleThinkingWantedSchoolFeltCollegeTheaterCompetitionPursue Author:Gillian Jacobs
“I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.” WantedSchoolCareersMinutesCollegeDegreesTheaterMusicalPursuePursuedMusical Theater Author:Nancy Allen
“Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.” WantedSchoolFilmUsedTurnsActingFilmmakerFilm School Author:Jeremy Davies
“When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.” PeopleKnowsWorldEnoughWantedSchoolHumanityDramaChanging The WorldRealisingImpartGreat Wisdom Author:Michael Sheen
“I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, "It would be so much easier!"” Would BeWantedSchoolEasierHigh SchoolUniforms Author:Taylor Schilling
“I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.” GovernmentWantedSchoolInterestTeacherInvolvedHigh SchoolCivicsHistory Teacher Author:Olivia de Havilland
“I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.” WritingWantedSchoolPaintingBandHigh SchoolMy SisterPacifiers Author:Cyndi Lauper
“School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.” WayTwoDifferentEnoughWantedSchoolSmartIntelligentEducatedBoredDifferent ThingsMatureEntertainersTwo Different Things Author:Djimon Hounsou
“I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A.” YearsWantedSchoolLawPsychologyHigh SchoolProgramDecidedMovedActressesJuniorsMagnetJunior Year Author:Ashley Greene
“In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didnt see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think Ive been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.” ThinkingYearsBigsWantedSchoolTurnsCoursesActorsTelevisionHigh SchoolTheaterEmbarrassedCliche Author:Mare Winningham
“I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought Id regret it if I didnt act.” IfsArtWantedSchoolRegretDoctorsArt School Author:Kate Ashfield
“I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.” Would BeWantedSchoolStuffParentShareWorstStupidHealthyHigh SchoolFairsWorst ThingsDisappointFair ShareHealthy Fear Author:Christine Lakin
“I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.” StillsDifferentStoriesWantedSchoolCoursesAudienceStageFrontsTelevisionInvolvedHigh SchoolExcitingTheaterLuxuryGet BackBroadway Author:Dennis Haysbert
“I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.” KnowsWritingStillsWantedSchoolLeftCausesNouns Author:Nick Frost
“High school was hard for me. I tried really hard to fit in and said the things I thought people wanted to hear. But I was unsure of myself. I was self-conscious, and I didn't really know my place or where I fit in.” PeopleKnowsSaidSelfHardWantedSchoolFitConsciousHigh SchoolSelf ConsciousUnsure Author:Meaghan Rath
“Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.” TwoPlayWantedSchoolStarsSportsFootballHigh SchoolBaseballSports Stars Author:Russell Wilson
“Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.” RunningAgeWantedSchoolParentEducationHeardAdviceCollegePrisonManageExecutivesRetirementOrphanDiscussingCorrectionsAsylumsRetirement AgeAlumni Author:Robert H. Jackson
“There's a school of thought that says if you legalize drugs it will solve the problem. We're all good liberals, we said let's do it and see what happens. We wanted to be honest about it. So in our brainstorming sessions we'd say, what if? The finding was that all the negative things came out also. The answer is that we didn't believe in the full legalization of drugs. But we don't believe in the criminalization of drugs, either.” IfsBelieveSaidProblemHappensWantedSchoolAnswersHonestDrugFindingsNegativeDon't BelieveSolveBeing HonestWhat IfSessionBrainstorming Author:George Pelecanos