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When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

— Olivia Hussey

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

— Ann Hood

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

— Sheryl Lee

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

— Jemima Kirke

I'd have made a terrible nun.

— Heather Graham

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

— Bruce Springsteen

I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

— Karen Armstrong

I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'

— Freida Pinto

✗Opposing Perspectives

You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute.

— Paul Mooney

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

— Joe Orton

I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.

— Moira Kelly