Jameela Jamil Quotes

I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor.

Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.

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

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

I couldn't understand what was important about school. Dropping out was the first adult decision I made. If I ever have kids, I would hate for them to drop out. But I wasn't a rebel. I never cared to be against school. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do.

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.

I'm born, and I die, but in between that, I can do whatever I want or have a strong opinion about something.

I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

You don't have to try to get a job and go through set steps before you start a career or start your life. That's what I want young girls to know - you can do anything you want. Just start.

I don't think young people are prepared for the moment of reckoning at the end of college - if you even go to college - where you have to get off of the hamster wheel and decide, 'Wait, where do I go from here?'

Today's kids have a mind of their own, and they know how to exercise it. Even if I wanted to tell Sara or my son Ibrahim how to lead their lives - which I don't - they would not listen to me. Luckily, Sara chose to complete her studies before pursuing acting. She attended Columbia University and then devoted her attention to Bollywood.

It's my life, my career. I'm making all the decisions now.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

I have the feeling I've always done what I wanted throughout my life.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.