What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Orlando Bloom said elsewhere, not written here
An actor or stuntman: I loved Lee Majors in The Fall Guy.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 March 2021 source ↗

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Shaun Ryder English singer
In 1975, I watched the film Stardust, and Adam Faith said, “I supply the birds, the pills and the pot.” And I thought, “I want that.”

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗

Joanne Froggatt English actress
An actor – that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. I went to stage school when I was 13.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2019 source ↗

Paul O'Grady British comedian, actor and television presenter
To work in a dry cleaner’s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 November 2021 source ↗

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