Eliza Scanlen Quotes

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 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 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 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'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

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.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

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.

Most young people want to get out of the environment they grow up in, move on, and do something. The big question for everyone is what they want to do and how. It's something that most young people feel.

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.

I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.

I still go through stages of wanting to try other trades. When I was young I thought I'd be a magician. And then a cartoonist. Or a professional roller-skater. But there wasn't much support for those on career day.

Never wanted to do anything else than acting ever in my life. But I'm 20, and there's so many possibilities. It would be insane for me to say, "Yeah this is definitely it, I'm never doing anything else." I'm 20 years old. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know anything about life. So I don't know. I may be a train conductor in 10 years. I have no idea. And that's the joy of this all.

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

You know, I'm still deciding what I'm going to be when I grow up.