Josh Duhamel Quotes

I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

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 figured out early on what I wanted to do.

There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a career, but it was more of an intention than an actual decision. I was very interested in a lot of different subjects, but every time I envisioned myself actually pursuing one as a career, I always ended up thinking that I would rather be acting.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

I'd like to see myself as captain, but it's a long-term goal.

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.

My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads.

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

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

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.

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

I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.

I'd definitely like to go to college some day.

I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.

It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

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

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

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.

When I left high school - I was younger than my classmates, just 17 - I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I thought, 'When I go to college, I'd rather study something else.'