Career Certainty Quotes

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician.

I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.

By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to do or where I was going. I was a musician. I was going to play. I had a band. We were going to make enough money to survive on.

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.

If I were part of Gaganyaan, I could have been sure that for the next few years, there would have been a second space mission and a third space mission.

Professional wrestling is in my blood. I may have second guessed it in the past, but I know it now.

I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.

Certainty regarding your career aged 15 is very unusual.

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do. My wife too. She's a ballet dancer, and she's known what she wanted to do since she was 5. My mother used to tell this story about how our TV set had been taken to be repaired, and back then, they took the set out of the console. So there was this empty console with an empty TV screen in it, and I would climb inside and be like, "I'm on TV!"

Nobody in the world could have told me I wasn't gonna be a rapper. So, yeah, I always knew I was gonna be one.

I did my first professional play at 11, and there was really nothing else I ever dreamed of doing. I felt so fortunate that I knew at the age of like, 12, like this is all I want to do for the rest of my life; that's the only play. There's no backup plan. My mom wanted me to go to school and have a backup plan. I'm like 'No, this is the only plan.'

I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be that stabbin Dilbert guy.

People always think actors are really 'out there,' so you wouldn't have me pegged as one, but I knew pretty early on it was what I wanted to do, and I think that's pretty lucky.

I was never tortured over whether I wanted to become an actor. There was never another option in my mind.

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

I don't have any conscious memory of wanting to be an actor, but early on, there was something in my makeup that I felt comfortable with. Then when I was around five or six, I started going to the movies and gradually it dawned on me that I was like one of those people on the screen. And that was it. There was never any question or doubt about what I was going to do for a living.

I had no other interests but baseball because I never thought I'd not make it. No. Never.

So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years.