Natalie Portman Quotes

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.

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 had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

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.

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

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

I think it's okay not knowing what you want to become.

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.

I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I didn't have a bad experience on 'Gossip Girl,' by any means, but it was during a time in my life where I was looking at acting in not a very serious way. Which is no insult to 'Gossip Girl,' but that was a time in my life when I really didn't know if I wanted to act when I got out of school. It was like, 'OK, I got this part. I'll go do this.'

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.'

Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up. Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

I'm not ready to decide if modeling is what I want to do with my life.

One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'