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

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Recorded Tamsin Greig said elsewhere, not written here
A ballet dancer.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 May 2025 source ↗

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Shirley MacLaine American actress and author
At three, I knew I was too tall to be a ballerina, so that wasn’t going to happen.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 July 2017 source ↗
Griff Rhys Jones British actor and comedian
An actor. Then I grew out of that and became one by default. Or sort of one: “Not really an actor”, said Michael Billington.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2017 source ↗

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