Greg Rutherford Quotes

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to see where it takes me.

I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

When I'm 19, I'll still be living with my mom, but I'm going to be doing music and acting. I can picture it really vividly.

The first thing I wanted to be growing up was a solicitor, because all the people around me needed solicitors! But I never really followed it up. Then I wanted to be a dessert chef because I liked the presentation.

When I was a young girl, I used to dream about what I would be when I grew up. I thought that I wanted to be a nurse, then a teacher, even a pilot at one point.

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.

I don't think I would ever quit acting, but there are other things I am interested in. I wanted to be an architect, and I wish I knew more about landscaping.

I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.

As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car business, an automobile executive.

When people ask what my ambitions are for the rest of my career, I always say that I live in the present.

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.

Bollywood was never really the aim, actually. I mean, sure, you could argue that I could have done more films there; for sure, I could have.

When I was little, I wanted to be a spy or a monster truck driver. Later, I just thought movies would be, like, a good hobby or something.

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

When I was growing up my parents never thought I would be an actor.