Wentworth Miller Quotes

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

When I was doing 'Neighbours,' I was aiming to go to university, then go to med school, but I realised I could make a better living from acting.

Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.

I was supposed to go to Northwestern and become a dental hygienist, get married, have babies. My father was very against me being in show business. Usually in Chinese culture, education is the most highly valued.

I remember that when I was little, my parents felt that I should study to become a teacher. They thought football was a waste of time and I'd never succeed at it.

My parents wanted me to get a degree.

When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is that you're going to make a career in show business.

My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They're both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

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 did a practical theatre degree, which I took seriously, and then told my parents I wanted to go into acting - because up until that point you could still say you were going to become a teacher. So I told my parents, and they said: 'But of course, that's what we always thought you were doing to do.' Until then, I was still in the acting closet.

I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

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

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

If I was working nine to five, acting would be my hobby... I always feel like maybe I should do an Open University degree. But I'm never going to.

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.