I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
Michael J. Fox
Related I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan... MICHAEL J. FOX Michael J. Fox was my idol. I always wanted to be Michael J. Fox. DAVE ANNABLE So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to ... PATRICK J. ADAMS When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten... JERRY SPINELLI I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making ... HANNAH KENT I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An ... JOHN SAYLES I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Mich... BRYAN GREENBERG I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn'... MUDDY WATERS I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terri... DENIS LEARY I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn&... ROB ZOMBIE I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia figh... MICKEY ROURKE I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had ju... LA'PORSHA RENAE The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b... EDITH PEARLMAN When I was in 'Billy,' I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always k... TOM HOLLAND I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure w... ERIC AVERY I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind... KARIN SLAUGHTER I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition. IMRAN KHAN I tried to go to college in the U.K. a couple of times, but at that point, I think I was a little di... BILLY HOWLE I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me... ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Th... SONIA RYKIEL All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my b... GAIL CARSON LEVINE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I... STEVEN KLEIN The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I pu... JENNY HOLZER I loved ice hockey. I used to play ice hockey. So, you know I wanted to be a hockey player. MATISYAHU MILLER I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and... ERNEST GAINES If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can&... JAMIE BLACKLEY I was really interested in acting and thought secretly I could do it but didn't tell anyone. It ... JOE ALWYN If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral suppor... MICHAEL J. FOX I've been watching Michael J. Fox since I was a toddler, basically. I watched all the 'Back ... JULIETTE GOGLIA I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a s... MICHAEL BUBLE When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, ... JIM DALE There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I wasn't really interested in girls. Only football. I was just enjoying football all the time. T... PAUL POGBA I wasn't a shrinking violet when I joined Fox News. I didn't have any power at Fox - I had n... MEGYN KELLY I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I thin... EMILY MORTIMER I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, w... BRYAN ADAMS The Hilltop wanted to run a regular comic strip, so I tried to do something that would appeal to How... CORY THOMAS I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy U... AMIRI BARAKA You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to ... BILL BURR I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home. ERNEST GAINES Growing up, I didn't know where I was headed, except to the grave or maybe to the gutter. I went... PAUL GIAMATTI I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn&... BILL GOLDBERG I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started... JONATHAN TOEWS If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like tha... MAGDI YACOUB Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine ... ROBERT SMITH When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn... BILLY IDOL I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going... ADAN CANTO From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody coul... GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of th... ADRIANNE PALICKI I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to t... ELLEN WONG I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling ... CHARLES KIMBROUGH It wasn't until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a... ADEN YOUNG I was told I was fat in the modeling world, and a director on a shoot told me I needed to lose weigh... COCO AUSTIN I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,... BOBBY ORR I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wa... J. D. SOUTHER The last pitch I threw to Michael Young, that was about all I had left. I wanted them to call that a... JOSH BECKETT A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not eve... DREW GILPIN FAUST For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player. MARIO LEMIEUX My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w... B. B. KING Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer. GAL GADOT Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn'... BILLIE JEAN KING When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was ... ADAM BEACH When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours... ZACH WOODS I wasn't into sports when I was younger. I was one of those kids who always tried to get a note ... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciousl... ARTO LINDSAY I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I ... MAGIC JOHNSON I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns an... ZACH GILFORD Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... JESSE MCCARTNEY I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be... CHRISTOPHER PARKER Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a... MARIO LEMIEUX I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct so... CAROL SHIELDS Growing up in Sweden, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to go to acting school. HELENA MATTSSON I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protec... KEVIN DURAND I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It ... DAN HAWKINS When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted t... LESLI LINKA GLATTER The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of some... KENNETH CRANHAM if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It ... BROOKE ADAMS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedbac... ADAM OATES I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a c... COLLEEN ATWOOD I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him a... DAVID SOUL I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't d... CHUCK CLOSE I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really w... MICHAEL RIEDEL At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has b... SALVADOR DALI At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been ... SALVADOR DALí At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been ... SALVADOR DALI At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been ... SALVADOR DALí The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player. TOM BRADY
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MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in s... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO Nothing's the same anymore. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI All love is unrequited. All of it. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI As things unravel, it's a larger conspiracy, so basically after the second year ? the show you think... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. Th... MICHAEL J. GELB Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order excee... MICHAEL J. GELB A champion views resistance as a gift of energy. MICHAEL J. GELB Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriousl... MICHAEL J. GELB I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your hea... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by other... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion MICHAEL J. TUCKER Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and... MICHAEL J. COHEN I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI [T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its valu... MICHAEL J. SANDEL First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the prin... MICHAEL J. SANDEL I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemica... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix... MICHAEL J. COHEN They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel... MICHAEL J. BEHE It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harsh... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl... J. MICHAEL BREWER The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time,... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ... MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula... MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc... MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or... MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ... MICHAEL J. BEHE There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I reall... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm. “Yes, I see it, but—” �... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN