Ron Silver Quotes

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

You know, I'm still deciding what I'm going to be when I grow up.

I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

I had these false ambitions - marketing and MBA. I didn't do very badly at it, but I realised my calling was something else.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants.

I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

I didn't want to be the 40-year-old still on MTV doing 'Real World.' I loved the show. I loved the people on it, but I had a different set of goals.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

Growing up, I would think I want to do this, I want to do that. You change your mind a million times.

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!