The question

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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Alexander Armstrong

English actor, comedian, broadcaster and singer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
When I was little I wanted to be a conductor. I knew there was a man in a smart coat who waved his arms around at the opera and I thought: "There's the job for me."

Laura Potter, This much I know, The Guardian, 13 March 2010 source ↗

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Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
I know that for a very long time my consuming passion, which was confirmed when I contracted TB — I had TB when I was about 12 or so — was I wanted to be a physician and when I got TB I was even more determined. I want to be physician so that I can find a cure for the scourge. And, in fact, I was admitted to medical school. If we had had the funds maybe today I would have been a physician.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗
Zuzana Čaputová Slovak environmental lawyer and later President of Slovakia; 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize winner
Myslím, že jsem ještě stále v procesu. Zvykám si na to.
Recorded N/A, Interview, ČT24, 19 June 2019 source ↗
Nish Kumar British stand-up comedian and presenter
Something in comedy. It was either this or Jimi Hendrix.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 February 2019 source ↗

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