Childhood Ambition Quotes

I was always a performer kid - like, annoyingly so. I would put on shows for my family and direct my friends in little plays, and my little sister, I'd make up dances with her. But when I was 12, that was when I started taking it seriously, and my mom for some reason believed in me and helped me find an agent in Cleveland, which did nothing for me.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

I've always been the kid who's known what they wanted to do.

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

Playing for Juventus is something you dream about when you're a kid.

Ever since I was 7 years old, Formula 1 has been my career goal, so this opportunity is truly a dream come true.

I wanted to become a model since I was a kid.

Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.

I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.

When I was 11, I told my mum I would play for England - and by 17, I'd done it.

I was 12 when I decided that I wanted to see myself on the big screen.

I mean, if you told me I would be one of the quarterbacks of the New York Giants when I was 6 years old in kindergarten, I think I'd take that.

By the age of 13, I knew I wanted to be a comedian like Morecambe and Wise. So, obviously, I thought I'd better start practising my interviews for Parkinson. Don't look shocked - I wasn't the only teenager to imagine that. Though I may have been the only one to have chosen T'Pau as my walk-on music.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.