Steve Ells Quotes

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

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.

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

Not many college students know what they want to do.

Going to college was something that I didn't want to do.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

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'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

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?'

I'm not sure what I want to do - business, law, something else.

Coming into community college, I wasn't sure of where I wanted to go in my future.

I had no clue what I wanted to do. I tried nursing, I tried science, I tried English. I just kept bouncing back and forth.

I went to college for political science and got a bartending job.

When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

I want to go to college, obviously go to London and just kind of figure out the rest of my life.

When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.

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 want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.