Margaret Qualley Quotes

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.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

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

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.

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.

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've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.

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.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something.

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 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.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

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

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

I'll always try to follow my heart into things I love, and modelling is not something I'm dreaming of pursuing forever.

I think I was on this very straightforward escalator - grammar school, high school, college, get a job on Wall Street, kind of everything leads to the next thing. But at what point do you get to step back and say, 'I'd like to take a broader view of my time on this planet?'

Don't move to New York. Find your own city and your way.

My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.

I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.