Rosanna Arquette: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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

Originally asked

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 Rosanna Arquette said elsewhere, not written here

A ballet dancer, and for a while I wanted to teach children with Down’s syndrome.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2021 source ↗

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Ronnie Wood English rock musician

An artist travelling and playing with the Stones.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 September 2017 source ↗

Isabelle Huppert French actress

I dreamed of being an artistic skater. And a nursery nurse.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 May 2018 source ↗

Bozoma Saint John Marketing executive; former chief marketing officer of Netflix

An obstetrician.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2017 source ↗

Winston Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964

At the end he asked me if I would like to go into the Army. I thought it would be splendid to command an Army, so I said 'Yes' at once: and immediately I was taken at my word. ... I was told later that he had only come to the conclusion that I was not clever enough to go to the Bar. However that may be, the toy soldiers turned the current of my life.

Recorded Chapter of his autobiography, written at Chartwell in 1930, Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life (Thornton Butterworth, 1930), Project Gutenberg Canada, October 1930 source ↗