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BAS RUTTEN
My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware th... RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
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ED BRADLEY
I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was... SANDRA CISNEROS Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
Most actors are like, 'I want to be more like Marlon Brando.' But when I was a little kid, I... LUCAS TILL
My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. BRUCE CAMPBELL I was drawn to it much to my father's dismay. He wanted me to be a pianist like he was, but I ha...
MIGUEL FERRER My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
FORREST BIRD My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre...
RAM KAPOOR
I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror t... LANCE GROSS
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he want... RODNEY DANGERFIELD
That was the strange thing - I didn't hate my father. He had wanted something. Like I wanted Suzanne... EMMA CLINE
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH My brother and I used to ride around in a half-ton cattle truck, listening to Waylon, so when he die...
GENE WEBB I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage ac...
LAURA LINNEY He soon grew up seeing him be a hero, ... He wanted to be just like his dad. A hero.
JOSE DIAZ I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hou...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated...
DAVID ALAN GRIER I felt it was my job as his mother, ... I brought him into the world with this set of circumstances ...
WENDY KRAMER
I always knew I wanted a great man of God, someone who was going to be an inspiration for people and... KATY PERRY I think I wanted to be a doctor. In Iran, the engineering and medical professions are worshipped. My...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my fa...
ZACH BRAFF I thought (a longer match) was to my advantage. I thought I might be in better condition, so I wante...
JOSH ROBERTS When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and ma...
ALICIA WITT
As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, a... EUGENIE CLARK I really wanted to be on the high school team this year. My brother was on it and my father was the ...
JOE ATWOOD
He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying t... STEVEN HALL
I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be ... LEO VARADKAR From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR My dad was a good man, he had standards, principles, and a code of honor.I always wanted to say the ...
GARY F EVANS...
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up w... MARKUS ZUSAK
but it wasn't just about my feelings. The more I got to know you, the more I was certain that you'd ... NICHOLAS SPARKS
My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be fu... CAROL LEIFER I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble fa...
MIGUEL COTTO
My hip was hurting, and I couldn't move like I wanted to, VENUS WILLIAMS My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto... SHERRI SHEPHERD I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.
RICHARD LLEWELLYN
With albums like 'Rodeo,' 'Days Before Rodeo' and 'Owl Pharaoh,' I was reall... TRAVIS SCOTT My father, who was a doctor, died of pancreatic cancer. But he was clear about what he wanted done a...
CARLOS GOMEZ I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one ...
C. THOMAS HOWELL My arm feels great and I wanted to pitch. (Wednesday's) game was a bad one. This was much better. Mu...
MARIANO RIVERA He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like,
BILLY ANDRADE I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h...
DAN HILL
I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much c... DANIEL EK There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond h...
CHASKE SPENCER I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had ju...
LA'PORSHA RENAE
I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor. IEVA LAGUNA He was made up and orchestrated to be everything I wanted him to be.
JOANN SIMS Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology s...
WYCLEF JEAN He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, ... I went like all pale. I felt all the bl...
JOHN LEGUIZAMO
I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job. RYAN GOSLING
I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him... EDEN HAZARD
Whatever it was her father wanted, Emma did not know how to provide it. She felt confused by what he... CAROL LEE Well, it's a little odd, the path I took, because when I was young, I wanted to be a cattle ranc...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR
I wanted him to declare in shock how overlooked and underestimated I had been ever since I was a chi... ASPEN MATIS
My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house ... LEWIS THOMAS
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played... CAM NEWTON The SS were the men in black. He was proud to be a man in black and they were pleased to have him. H...
GERDA KOPKOW My first love is film, always. I wanted to be an actor. That was my dream as a young man,
JOE SIMPSON I was influenced, or inspired by, my kindergarten teacher. I wanted to be just like her.
DIANA LIGHT
The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I dive... ZIGGY MARLEY
I wanted him to meet Ainsley. She was super important to me. I made my decision. “I...I would like... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is ... CHARLIE ROWE After 'Life Unexpected' ended, I wanted to do something that was completely different from L...
BRITT ROBERTSON
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole...
TUCKER ELLIOT Clive was the man who had won a World Cup, he had the experience and I was there to back him up and ...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL
I wanted to do in boxing what Bruce Lee was able to do in karate. Lee was an artist, and, like him, ... SUGAR RAY LEONARD I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surg...
MAGDI YACOUB
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. JUNE JORDAN I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 1...
CHARICE PEMPENGCO
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. SIDNEY POITIER …though I wouldn’t have admitted it, even to myself, I didn’t want God aboard. He was too heav...
SHELDON VANAUKEN I feel really bad for Brian. Brian wanted everybody to be sure that his father was a very sick man.
DANIEL JOSEPH I'd say he was just a man on a mission all year. He wanted to get back to that championship match, a...
JASON EMMONS
At 11 years old, I made a very definitive decision, and my decision was that I wanted to be happy. A... GOLDIE HAWN
It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts... DANIEL CRAIG He confronted my wife and she didn't deserve that. When my wife saw him, she asked him to leave and ...
HAL TURNER
My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and... ALVEDA KING He came in my office one day and had this sheepish look on his face, like there was something on his...
JEFF PYLE I was very scared for the future of my son, Alexander. I wanted to be free, and, more importantly, I...
ARNOLD IRCHAI
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor...
CHRIS WOOD When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwate...
ENRIC SALA My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
FLANN O'BRIEN
Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle cla... JERRY REINSDORF I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my ...
EDGARDO OSORIO I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lo...
DONOVAN BAILEY
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companie... MARTHA STEWART I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. ...
BARRY ZITO My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a go...
MAX VON SYDOW
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion... TIM CAHILL
My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he foun... PATTY JENKINS My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United State... HENRY LOUIS GATES
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