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.

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Recorded Andy Serkis said elsewhere, not written here
I just thought I was going to go into graphics and painting, which is what I wanted to do.

Mark Sells, MovieMaker Magazine, 31 January 2023 source ↗

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Gino D'Acampo Italian-British celebrity chef and media personality
I wanted to be a footballer at first, like any other Neapolitan kid.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2022 source ↗
Fay Ripley English actress, television presenter, cookbook author
Donny Osmond’s wife. Still do.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2022 source ↗
Olivia Williams British actress
My mother says I had a plan to be a farmer’s wife and a violinist, going to concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in my tractor.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 April 2022 source ↗

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It begins with knowing the story you want to tell. There are thousands of stories contained within the world that Samantha has created – we have to be very disciplined about opening up the world in a way that will lead us on to further investigation in the rest of the series. We need to find the emotional heart of the story; the relationships; the tension; the suspense and the drive; and of course working closely with Samantha is going to make it much easier.
Recorded greendragon, TheOneRing.net, 30 September 2013 source ↗

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