Jonathan Scott Quotes

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

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.

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).

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.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

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.'

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.

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

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 was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

I think being in the city is the perfect way to figure out what I want to do.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!

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 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 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.

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

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

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.

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