Dascha Polanco Quotes

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

My mum was an advertising professional till she had me and my dad is a surgeon and is the director of Bhatia Hospital.

My mom's a nurse so I'd kind of grown up with, around medicine which is probably why I became an actress instead.

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.

No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.

It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then just when I think my head might explode, I get to go to school where they don't really care about what magazine cover I'm on.

I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing.

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

In an ideal world, I'd like to carry on acting, but I don't want it to interfere with my studies.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.

The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.

For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I've been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

Medicine has always been my calling.

My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

My background is in health care.

I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing something in the medical therapy field, chiropractics or something like that. I've always been into the idea of helping people medically, but I can't stand blood or surgery. That freaks me out. So this would be a bloodless way to help people.

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

My father was a doctor.

I don't know how doctors pick one specialty over another. Some you can understand. Pediatricians. Or gynecologists delivering babies, bringing a new life into the world, but how does someone want to be a proctologist? How can you fall in love with proctology?

It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.