D. B. Sweeney Quotes

After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor.

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.

My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'

I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.

My father quite honestly played no role in my decision to become an actor.

I was almost on the verge of studying medicine. But then, I realised I would have to give up singing. That is when it dawned on me that I could have a career in music.

There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.

I did not choose acting as a career.

I want to go to college, and I want to keep acting and singing.

My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.

I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

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

I never thought I was going to go to work for my father's company.

I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing.

By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' because my dad was always saying to me, 'Pick a career path where you're always going to be necessary.' But by junior year, I was president of choir, I was the lead in the school play, and I just loved being onstage performing.

My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.

I got a sociology degree and then had an opportunity to go to graduate school. But I said no, because I wanted to give songwriting a shot.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer.

I was not thinking about getting into acting in any way.

In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn't sit too well with them!

I loved movies and watched a lot of them. But my father insisted that I get a good education before I joined the film industry.

My mother really wanted me to go to school and to university, but I was adamant that I wanted to be a football player.

For a long time, I thought I was going to go into law, but theatre just kept being so present in my life.