Joey Chestnut Quotes

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

It was hard for me to take competitive eating serious at first. When I made people happy, I became addicted to that. It's been a fun, fun ride.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

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

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.

Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York City. They would never put me into acting. I just kind of wanted it, and I told them that.

Basically I was really modeling for fun, but it wasn't ever something that I wanted to do to begin with.

Nothing in my early childhood suggested to anyone - except maybe my father - that one day I would be standing here and be known simply as Judge Judy.

If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.

Although I grew up around movies, I don't know that I assumed I was going to be an actor.

Given my family background, whenever, as a child, I was asked about becoming an actor, I used to answer in the negative.

I love politics. It could be that, or it could be that my dad was always really big on, 'This is your job. You are going to work...' You know, it's really funny cause he was such a cowboy, and he doesn't like the concept of guys coming in like cowboys - unshaved and wearing flip flops - and stuff like that would eat him alive.

I was born in Japan, and I grew up in England, and I wanted to be an actor when I was a child because I had an uncle who was an actor. I wanted to do everything he did, and he told me to learn how to dance first. So then I learned how to dance.

Once I get a rhythm going, I can jump those hot dogs down.

When I was growing up my parents never thought I would be an actor.

I briefly flirted with the idea of more stable career choices but they never excited me. I know it's a bit of a cliche but I remember doing school plays in primary school and feeling at home on the stage.

I didn't have any plan to go into comedy.

I never thought I was going to be a comedian.

I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.