Matisyahu Quotes

If I wasn't singing country music for a living, I was actually going to school to be a doctor.

Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.

I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

I don't speak English, so I cannot foresee a career in Hollywood. But I do see myself more and more as an actress rather than a dancer.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

I didn't understand that I couldn't just leave and become sort of a semi-regular. I had to be sat down by the line producer, Carol Himes, in my dressing room and told, 'I hear you're thinking about going to college.'

By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' because my dad was always saying to me, 'Pick a career path where you're always going to be necessary.' But by junior year, I was president of choir, I was the lead in the school play, and I just loved being onstage performing.

One day I woke up, and I felt like I knew I wanted to be an analyst and a broadcaster.

Ever since I started all of this TV weirdness, I just tried to make each year better than before professionally.

I went to an arts high school and was surrounded by drama students who dreamed of working in the industry. I almost feel a sense of guilt, because I didn't go to acting school.

I was 19 or 20 when I was confused whether to take up films as a career. At that juncture, I enrolled in an acting workshop and then eventually realised I was destined to be in films.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.

Certainty regarding your career aged 15 is very unusual.

I've been a writer for years, but it was mainly as a function of trying to be a director, so I just got work as a writer. I want to keep directing.

I always wanted to become a doctor but then my plans changed gradually.

Post 'Pink,' I figured out which direction I want my career to take.