Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Quotes

I majored in business/marketing because I was going to be a teacher and a high school basketball coach.

I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in which I could specialise in music, but I ended up dropping out after I was honest with myself about what I really wanted to do with my life.

I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt Beth's friend was Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda Miller. She encouraged me to talk to her. After doing that, she recommended Catholic University's M.F.A. acting program. So that's what I did.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

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.'

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

I didn't understand that I couldn't just leave and become sort of a semi-regular. I had to be sat down by the line producer, Carol Himes, in my dressing room and told, 'I hear you're thinking about going to college.'

If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.

I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.

At one point, I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

I wanted to be in the police force, a teacher, a judge, lawyer, doctor, and other jobs. Of course, my mind changed as I started to face reality.

My life could have easily gone another way. But I had this one teacher who gave me direction and got me into performing. She got me into touring with an educational play called 'The Inner Circle' along with Pedro Zamora from MTV's 'The Real World.'

After Class 10, I kept away from films.

When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless - or so I thought.

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.