Darin Strauss Quotes

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

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

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

Never in a million years would I have imagined that this is how my life would have ended up. I just thought I would be living in the States, doing a regular job.

I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

I had in mind a long career.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

I went to New York for a while before I moved to L.A., and I was very clear that I didn't want to do TV. For a decade, basically, I didn't even entertain the idea.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

I always thought I was going to be a dancer and then fashion kind of took over.

I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.

When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.

At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

I really hope acting is going to be my career to the end, but you don't know anything, really, do you?