Paul Polman Quotes

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job - not a calling.

I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

I would have loved the opportunity to have gone to drama school, but it just didn't work out for me; there are always several paths, and there's a reason why I've been down this path.

Like every father who wants his son to be either an engineer or a doctor, my father wanted me to become a doctor. I never did.

My mom wanted me to be a youth pastor, and when I became a comedian, she said it was close enough.

There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i.e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Yeah, there's probably been times when I'm watching cable and seeing there's like three movies that Jack's in and I'm sitting hogging a bag of Cheetos in my underwear and I think 'God, what happened to me? Why can't I be something special like Jack?'

Even when I was starting out, I knew there were certain things that I didn't want to do or wanted to do.

I think sometimes we start out wanting to do things that maybe we're not cut out for.

I think I always kind of wanted to be a musician but never dared to say it out loud because I never thought it was possible. I wanted to be a teacher, a lawyer, a doctor - I wanted to be a lot of other things growing up.

You only have so much time in the day, and you only have so many working years. Where do you want to invest that life?

My parents actively tried to discourage me from going into music - especially Dad, because of the troubled times he had in his youth.

I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn't clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead.

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

I had always wanted to go to college but found my life taking a different path.

I asked myself whether I would be happy with limited playing time and I decided that wasn't good enough for me.

I turned down a lot of money by not going to Chelsea, but that's not what I'm interested in.

I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.

Part of me, even when I was trying to get acting jobs, I was still kind of thinking, 'Oh I should do something else with my life.'

A lot of kids have parents who say, 'Music is hard; maybe you should come up with a Plan B.' Whenever I hear that kind of 'advice,' I think it's bad parenting. I was lucky to have a parent who assured me it was a possibility to pursue music.

They let me do my diploma from home, but I always knew I was destined to do something creative, so I didn't care.