Meg Rosoff Quotes

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

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 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 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.

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

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

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.

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by 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.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

I don't know what kind of career I want to forge for myself. But I want it to be one where I love the work that I've done. And I like to think that I have good instincts.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

Definitely working on 'Deal or No Deal' was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

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 think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

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 think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between.

I know a lot of people my age are still trying to figure out what to do, and I consider myself lucky that I can make a living doing something that I truly enjoy.