“Old was NOT one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up!!”
“As a child I had wanted to become an automobile, but then I grew up to be thirty years old.”
“All I'd wanted to be when I grew up was yours.”
“Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.”
“I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.”
“When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.”