career aspirations quotes

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.

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

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’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.

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

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

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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