"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."
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"I've secretly always wanted to be an astronaut."
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"When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate."
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"[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."
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"I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted."
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"All I ever wanted was to perform, make music, make videos."
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"By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer."
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"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."
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"As a child I wanted to become an architect."
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"I just wanted a style of music all my own."
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"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."
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"My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter."
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"Once I started focusing on the things I wanted, they all started coming true."
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"Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry."
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"I was a huge Ann-Margret fan, and I wanted to be like her."
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"If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me."
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"You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure."
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"Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into."
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"I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain."
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