Ryan Higa Quotes

Medicine has always been my calling.

When I was little, I wanted to be a plastic surgeon.

Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.

My family's very medical, so as a field, that, I think, it's so important and wonderful, something I'm definitely interested in. Just not for a living!

Originally, I was in high school, and I was studying biology, and I got really interested in the field of medicine. And then, I got a lot of early exposure to it because my father's a physician, and I saw the relationship that he had with his patients, and it was something that drew my attention to how wonderful the field was.

I was always interested in medicine and I was actually a pre-med major.

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

If not music, I think it would be pretty cool to be an ear, nose and throat doctor.

Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.

I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

Medicine is so fascinating.

Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really wanted to be a medical doctor, and I had various schemes: one was to be a psychiatrist, another was tropical medicine.

My father was a doctor.

No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

I have always been interested in health care and doing something that is dramatic.

I am the first podiatrist to serve in the U.S. Congress.

For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.