I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

I’ve been composing music all my life and if I’d been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

We fly to 106 kilometers. We’ve always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn’t want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you’re an astronaut or not.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.

I didn’t know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that’s what I was going to be.

I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking ‚that is what I want to do.‘

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

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