This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.
Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.
I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.
When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.
I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.
I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else.