Body Quote by Jo Swinson

When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be…

— Mae Jemison

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop -…

— Idina Menzel

My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.

— Misty Copeland

I grew up doing musical theater. I went to a school for musical theater, so that was always what I wanted to do growing…

— Madeline Brewer

When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

— Patti Smith

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I…

— Dido Armstrong

When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.

— FKA twigs

When I was very small, when I was five or six, that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a song and…

— Denis Lawson

I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just wanted it…

— Evangeline Lilly

I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to…

— Solange Knowles

My childhood shaped the person I became. It was artistic, musical and left-wing.

— Rosanna Arquette

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something…

— Michael J. Fox