Quote

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

I wanted to be a painter.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.