Johanna Konta Quotes

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.

It wasn't until people started asking me what my plans were for the future - if I would go to college or go pro - that it really hit me what I wanted to do. I decided I wanted to go pro and try to be in Wimbledon.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. 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 could never have imagined that, so early in my career, that I'd be ticking off boxes that I've dreamed about since I was a little girl.

I remember, one teacher in Year 11 asked the class what everyone wanted to do when they grow up, and I said, 'I want to be a professional wrestler.' The teacher laughed and said to be serious.

I'm not sure if they do this in the States, but in Korea, until high school, on your graduation diploma there's a line that states your future goal. Kids write 'president' or 'astronaut,' or whatever. I always wrote 'singer.'

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.

I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think you're supposed to say an ambulance man or a footballer or a soldier or something like that, and I told all my mother's friends that I wanted to be Minister for Health. She was mortified, needless to say.

My manager always brings up this fact that when I was 10 and first met her I said I never want to do movies and TV.

As much as I liked Wolves as a boy and it was a childhood dream to play and perhaps manage for the club, I've come to Bolton and this is where I want to stay.

Before I was attacked, I would write about the future - just goals, lists and plans. I'd scribble without depth or substance about the things I wanted to do with my life, whether short or long-term, and how I thought my future would be: a successful career in TV and modelling, marriage, a family.

My ambitions are to be the Stoke number one and England number one, but there are other things I want to achieve in my career as well.

To be completely honest, I never thought I could become a model growing up. I actually wanted to be an entertainment journalist.

When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler’s trophy wife.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

A question that I can't answer is: what do you want to do next? What's your dream role? What are you really looking to do? Where do you see yourself? It doesn't make any sense because that's such an outsider's perspective.