"I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken."
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"I've always wanted to play more comic parts."
"I've secretly always wanted to be an astronaut."
"When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate."
"[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that."
"I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted."
"All I ever wanted was to perform, make music, make videos."
"By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer."
"Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather."
"As a child I wanted to become an architect."
"I just wanted a style of music all my own."
"I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find it anywhere. If I could I probably would never have started writing."
"My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter."
"Once I started focusing on the things I wanted, they all started coming true."
"Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry."
"I was a huge Ann-Margret fan, and I wanted to be like her."
"If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me."
"You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure."
"Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into."
"I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain."