David Hyde Pierce Quotes

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

I knew I wasn't going to be a rocket scientist - let's not be fools - but I wasn't going to be a bum.

I was part of the generation that was supposed to become doctors.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very silly ambition and introduced me to drama classes. Once I became fixated on that, there was no stopping me.

I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.

While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.

I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

My mom is the type of mom who wonders why I haven't used my psychology degree to become a successful clinical psychologist.

I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

At 27 or so I thought, you know, I actually do really want to make money and have a proper life, and I don't want to be a loser. I know! I'll go to university and get a proper degree and maybe get a job in media... I went and did an English degree.

The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.

I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since.

There's just so many things I wanna do. At the end of the day, I wanna be happy.

I never wanted to be defined by what I did for a living.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.