Emily Bett Rickards Quotes

When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.

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.

As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.

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

I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for it that it's a pretty cool job.

Becoming an astronaut was a little bit of happenstance for me.

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

As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized that being an astronaut was not going to be an option, so I said, "Well, I'm going to be a director and do films in space."

I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.

When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

As a child, I wanted to be an astronaut, then a fighter pilot, and then later, as I grew up, I was focused on scoring high marks so that I could do an MBA in marketing.

Most kids probably dream of becoming an astronaut. I was just the one that never grew out of it.

When I was in Class Four, I wanted to be an astronaut. I am still fascinated with the universe. I decided I wanted to be an actor when I was in Class Eight.

I wanted to become president, and I wanted to become an astronaut. Because I was really good at math.

I remember being a kid and wanting to be so many different things. There was even one point that I wanted to be a clarinet player, and I had never even touched a clarinet, in my life. And then, I wanted to be a chef. And then, I wanted to be a vet. It's hard to decide who you're gonna be, as weird as that sounds, because we all do it.

I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I'd be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.

The thought of me wanting to act was not an option when I was growing up, so I was getting my teaching credential.

I saw 'Seinfeld' on TV and told my mum that would be something cool to try one day, and she was like, OK, 'Here is a five-year-old telling me what they want to when they grow up' sort of thing, and what would they know, right!

Most of us at least briefly considered answering, 'An astronaut,' when asked as children what we wanted to be when we grew up.

From as young as I can remember, I wanted to be - in order - an astronaut, a geologist, and a biologist.

I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.

I always wanted to be an archaeologist or a psychiatrist.

When I was a kid, I thought I would be an entrepreneur and maybe at some point go into law school.

I was inspired by the men who walked on the moon. It really was my inspiration, I think, you know, as a kid of 9 years old - I know I'm dating myself, but - I thought, 'What a cool job!'