Adeel Akhtar Quotes

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country (Italy). Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.

I went to law school after college.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

Law school! A man must read law in the court house.

I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.

Before I ever got into coaching, I got my law degree at Pepperdine.

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses, luckily, and backed out, and decided to go to drama school.

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a child. I have a lot of interests, and I really wanted to finish my education - go to college - and didn't really want to have a career as an adolescent.