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 Nick Grimshaw said elsewhere, not written here
Genuinely, the host of Radio 1’s Breakfast Show.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

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Martin Freeman English actor
I wanted to be a footballer and then a squash player – I was in with a chance because I was very good. But I fell out of love with that by 14 or 15 and joined a youth theatre.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2019 source ↗
Roger Allam English actor
When I was a child, it was a bus driver or engine driver; then, when I was a teenager, I went to the theatre and wanted to be an actor.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗

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