Matthew Williamson Quotes

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

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.

You know, I'm still deciding what I'm going to be when I grow up.

I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up.

My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.

Since I was a child, everyone would ask me what I wanted to do when I grew up. Was I going to be a designer? It's as if there was a path drawn for me, and I could see, from where I was standing, exactly where it ended.

Some teachers used to worry and ask me, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?'

I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.

Everyone wants to be a designer.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.

I still don't know what I'm going to be. I love acting. I would love to be an English teacher. I would love to be a housewife and have a chateau in the South of France, I would love to be a singer that travels to cafes around different towns.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and I knew exactly the kind of lawyer I wanted to be.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.

I remember, one teacher in Year 11 asked the class what everyone wanted to do when they grow up, and I said, 'I want to be a professional wrestler.' The teacher laughed and said to be serious.

Sometime in your teens you have to decide what you want to do. I knew it had to be cinema.

By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.

I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.

I know that my father was a little nervous about me pursuing a career in the arts.