Owen King Quotes

I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn't clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead.

I treaded water academically and spent much of my summertime as a camp counselor. It seemed a fun thing to do for a person in no way prepared to commit to a career path.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'

I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.

I'm excited about developing as a Diva and finding where my place is in this company.

I must say I have turned down several great companies, so I'd probably say I have to keep learning.

If someone chooses a vocational route, why do they not get the same respect in society as someone who just does a pure academic route?

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

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

I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.