Mira Sorvino Quotes

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

The key is to join an industry that you have a passion for. If you love cars, then automotive is where you should end up.

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.

I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.

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 am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

I'm not going to sit here and go to college for something that I don't care about.

People shouldn't choose their careers on whether it's cool or not. They should choose their careers on, 'Are they good at it, do they love it, is it going to give them a good life?'

As it happens, although I was at MIT on the faculty full-time for 18 years and then at Harvard for another 16, so I've always been in full-time academia, I always found it was both beneficial for my research and beneficial for the other work to be involved in the practicing community.

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

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like.

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

I don't work at something because I think it's important. I work at things that, to me, are interesting.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.