Nina Nesbitt Quotes

The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?

I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn't what I want to do.' I was like, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to go out and make something of myself, and I have no clue what that is.'

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I'd never made the choice to go into acting.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

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 really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

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.

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

I never became a cowboy or baseball player, and now I'm beginning to wonder if I ever really became a writer. I find that I hesitate to put that label on myself, to define myself by what I do for a living.

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'

So I decided on science when I was in college.

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've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I'd think, when I'm grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

I always grapple with myself, from job to job, 'Is this going to make an impact in some way?'

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