Alan Dershowitz Quotes

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

Since I was a child, everyone would ask me what I wanted to do when I grew up. Was I going to be a designer? It's as if there was a path drawn for me, and I could see, from where I was standing, exactly where it ended.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.

My dad wanted me to be a businessman, but I felt that wasn't for me.

I knew what I wanted to do even when I was a little girl.

I didn't want to be an actress. It wasn't a dream. I didn't have any dreams at all.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.

I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up.

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.

The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.

I'm not ready to decide if modeling is what I want to do with my life.