Lexa Doig Quotes

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.

I never wanted to be an engineer.

I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.

I was doing nuclear med I didn't like it. My first semester I switched to film major. YouTube helped make that decision for me.

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.

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

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.

I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

I schooled in Himachal Pradesh. I had taken up science and, initially, wanted to become a doctor. There are few career options for students of science though, so I shifted to Delhi and decided to try theater instead.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

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 still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn't going to be a doctor, but I couldn't stand to see the sight of blood. And I wanted to be a lawyer since I was in seventh or eighth grade.

People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.

I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.