Matthew Fox Quotes

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

You know, I'm still deciding what I'm going to be when I grow up.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

I don't know if I ever entertained an academic career, nor did I ever think I'd become a feature film-maker in the market.

I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

You set out to be a footballer, when you're young, and you think I'd love to do that. There's plenty of things along the way that could change that, and it's the same thing now with being a manager, it's time will tell how it goes.

I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

I had to decide if I wanted to race full time or be an architect. I decided I could always go back to school.

My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.

I'm not ready to decide if modeling is what I want to do with my life.

I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.