Brian Shactman Quotes

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

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

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

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

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

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

If you had asked me, did I have everything nailed down and wired about what I wanted to do, and was I following some real plan? No. In fact, by the time I was in my mid-20s or even late-20s, and I was still in the law firm, I really was starting to get a little nervous that I didn't know what I was going to do.

Before 'Broad City,' I had a lot of jobs that I knew were not for me, but when you're young and don't know exactly what you're going to do, if an opportunity comes up, you feel like, 'This is an opportunity; I have to try it.'

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

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.

One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'

Some people will know exactly what they want to do at a very young age, but the odds are low. I feel like people in their early- to mid-20s are very earnest. They’re very serious, and they want to feel like they’ve accomplished a lot at a very young age rather than just trying to figure stuff out. So I try to push them toward a more experimental attitude.

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

Definitely working on 'Deal or No Deal' was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing.

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).

From the time I was 16, I wanted to live in Paris. When I graduated college and didn't have a job, I went to take the LSAT because I didn't know what else to do. I walked out in the middle of the test and eventually found an internship in Paris at L'Oreal.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

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.