Ella Purnell Quotes

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.

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

I always have moments on set where I think, 'Oh my God, this is my life right now.' And it could've been so different.

There comes a turning point in the life of every person when he reflects on his journey and work and ponders on the next road to take. Is this the pinnacle, the ultimate? What next?

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.

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

You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.

It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.

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.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

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.

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

I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You've explored so little. I'm lucky: My parents let me explore.

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

I've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.