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 wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.
My dream is to get to the NBA, obviously. But it will be when the time is right.
Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.
I was studying tourism at college and wanted to travel the world as a tour guide - that was my dream! But actually, sometimes modeling feels quite similar, because I travel so much - probably even more than tour guiding.
At first everyone thought that wanting to become a pro wrestler was just a phase.
I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.
I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.
I thought I was going to be on Broadway. I thought, 'I'm going to do theater.'
I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?
I thought I would move to New York and be on Broadway; that was my goal. I was very work-focused.
The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.
I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea.
I've been doing this close to 19 years now, and I always dreamed of being in the WWE.
When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.
Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".
I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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.
I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.
There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck.
In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
In my head, I used to always think football is what I wanted to do as a career.
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.
