Rutger Hauer Quotes

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

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.

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 never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

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 spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

I'm 19. I'm in the process of growing up and figuring out where I'm supposed to be in my life. But it is kind of weird when I realize that other people look to me as inspiration.

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

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

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.

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.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

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

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Each of us has our own destiny. Mine is to be an actor.