Frederick Sanger Quotes

If I wasn't modeling, I'd be studying economics or international politics.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

Sometime in your teens you have to decide what you want to do. I knew it had to be cinema.

First I was going to be a football player, then after that try to study medicine or engineering. But it was very difficult to do medicine, so I did engineering.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this.

I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn't the right place for my Ph.D.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

As an undergrad, I studied engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma, and all my degrees are from engineering departments. My father wanted me to join him in the oil-field business in Oklahoma, but I wanted to be a scientist.

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.

My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.

There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.

I'm not going to sit here and go to college for something that I don't care about.

Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn't sit too well with them!