Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

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.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

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 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 envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

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 didn't have a bad experience on 'Gossip Girl,' by any means, but it was during a time in my life where I was looking at acting in not a very serious way. Which is no insult to 'Gossip Girl,' but that was a time in my life when I really didn't know if I wanted to act when I got out of school. It was like, 'OK, I got this part. I'll go do this.'

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.

I don't think I've ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role - I just see what comes up.

I always have looked for the best challenge, I guess, that I could take on. I haven't been producing my own work or anything like that, so I've taken the jobs that look most interesting that come my way.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up. Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.

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.

I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.

I have never decided on how to plan my career moves.

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

I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

It was never my goal to be an actor.

If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.

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

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.