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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

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

I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.

When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.