Milo Ventimiglia Quotes

I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

My dad had a couple of professions in mind for me. He either wanted me to be a doctor because he said male doctors make a lot of money, or he wanted me to be a soccer player. Myself, I thought that I would really love being a pilot for the Air Force. I really wanted to be a part of the Air Force.

In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian."

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

Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.

I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there's going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there's someone who can do it just as good or better.

I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.

I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about.

When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit.

I guess I've sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want to be the Queen of England.

I thought I would either be an epidemiologist or a 'Price Is Right' model.

My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.

It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.

I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.

I'm in control of things happening in my aviation career. And I'm not in my acting career.

There was a time when I wanted to be a lawyer, or even a professional triathlete... But nothing could come close to the passion I have for acting.

There have been films I have said no to and there are roles that I wish I had done.

Most of the career choices I've made have been because of my family.

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 if I had joined the Army early, I would not have been able to appear in the drama 'Boys over Flowers' and had such a happy 20s.

I immediately loved flying from my first flight and knew that in some way it was going to be a part of my future career!