Sonia Gandhi Quotes

People think my family pushed me into running for office. The person who pushed me most not to run for office was my father.

If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters!

I was meant to be an actor, and I realised that only after my son was born.

I wanted to be a violin-maker like my dad, and then I wanted to be a doorman in my building.

I didn't want to be president of the World Wildlife Fund. I was asked to do it. I'd much rather have stayed in the navy, frankly.

A lot of people - a lot - have urged me to seek political office. All kinds of different jobs. Everybody has got a different idea for me, except all roads lead through my wife.

My dad was very excited about me doing 'Laguna Beach,' and he thought it was a great opportunity. My mom, however, living in Chicago, was a little nervous. I mean she had some reservations about MTV. I think there was a point in my life where I wasn't even allowed to watch MTV!

My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.

I'm the only one in the family who stumbled into acting.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

My parents are doctors, both my sisters are doctors, so I figured I'd just be a doctor too. Sometime in my junior year, I had this sudden realization that maybe that wasn't for me. I was sort of lost at sea.

My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.

My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.

No one in my family had ever been in politics. My dad thought it was something that got in the way.

I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York City. They would never put me into acting. I just kind of wanted it, and I told them that.

As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car business, an automobile executive.

When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor's degree, this time in environmental science.

My father was an MLA and I've grown up knowing the kind of stuff that goes behind the working of a party and the role of the party people, and I used to think that one day I too would be a part of it. But when acting happened, politics took a backseat in my mind and I concentrated more into building my acting career.

Had I not been an actor, I would have been counting cash at my father's restaurant or supervising activities in the kitchen. I did it for a year when I was in college. I put on 10 kgs and then it hit me that I couldn't do that anymore.

I didn't listen to any of my dad's scores.

So much of life's dramas, good and bad, play out against family and so it's really inspiring for any number of stories in all the fields I write in.

I was quite young when my dad went into politics but, as it went on, I became self-conscious about it.

I never wanted to be singer. People in my family love music, and I pursued it as a hobby.

I come from a family of seven, so growing up I always thought I'd like a big family.

My mom is very practical, and she originally wanted me to have something to fall back on. She was a little fearful of my becoming an actor because she didn't see it as a way to make a living. My dad, who was born and raised in Cuba, was really cool with it.