Kierston Wareing Quotes

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

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.

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.

I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

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

I don't know what my future holds. I'm gonna love playing football for as long as I can, but there's a lot of other things that I would love to accomplish.

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.'

I didn't really know exactly the point where I wanted to be an actor. But I know at this point, because I never went to college, I don't really have anything to fall back on.

Every time I try to tell people things about my career, I wonder if that's the truth or something I'm fantasizing about.

I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.

The future is wide open. I may actually go back and get that law degree someday.

I knew I wasn't going to be a rocket scientist - let's not be fools - but I wasn't going to be a bum.

I don't really like to say, 'This is where I'll be in five years,' because I truly have no idea.