Marina Abramović: 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 Marina Abramović said elsewhere, not written here

Exactly what I am now.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2024 source ↗

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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 ↗

Pauline McLynn Irish character actress and author

A hairdresser – I still want to be a hairdresser.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 July 2023 source ↗

Romesh Ranganathan English actor and comedian

A comedian or rapper. You can tell by the way I’m dressed that I’m a frustrated rapper.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2024 source ↗

Lauren Laverne English radio DJ, and television presenter

I wanted to be like my dad, who was an academic, because he had an office packed full of books, always had loud music on, and seemed to get to do what he wanted.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 February 2022 source ↗