Sudha Murty Quotes

If I wasn't an actor, I'd probably be working in journalism.

I was damn sure that I was not going to be a lawyer or a brain surgeon.

If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.

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

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view.

When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because nobody could give me a good answer, I opted for acting.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

If you're not excited about the field of engineering that you have, you can't be a good engineer.

If I hadn't become an actress, I would be a dancer.

If I had not become an actress, I would be a journalist or a psychologist: I like to analyze the mind and be involved in political moments that change history.

I used to want to be a critic. I think it's an awesome job. You get to watch all this stuff and then write about it and analyze it and give insight into it. That's an amazing job. I was terrible at it, though.

Had I not been a choreographer, I would have become nothing more than a traffic cop or peon in an office.

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all.

Man, I don't wanna do what all the other guys do. I don't wanna end up in the booth after the games telling you what I think and talking smack about the guys on the floor when they are a lot better than that. I wanna be different. I don't wanna be known as Commentator Shaq. I wanna be a doctor or something good. I wanna be Dr. Shaq, Officer Shaq, Deputy Shaq.

I thought maybe I should write or study law. I even had the idea to open a flower shop. But I was so fascinated with film, I couldn't stay away.

Who am I to tell people what to do with their own careers and how they're doing?

I'm an engineer by training.

In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.