Bruce Nauman Quotes

I ask myself a lot of question about my work as an actress. We shall see. Plenty of friends tell me, 'Of course you must continue acting,' but I'm not sure.

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

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 was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

I don't know what my future holds. I'm gonna love playing football for as long as I can, but there's a lot of other things that I would love to accomplish.

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

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

I never thought in a million years I would be in a girl group, so I can't look too deep into the future.

In any case, I am not a great one to make plans for the future.

I'm about to graduate senior year and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to lose the momentum with what I'm doing now as an actress.

I went to university and studied English literature, and I forgot about music. I was gonna be a journalist. But then I decided to try and be a backing singer, and my mum was like, "Go for it." If that didn't work, I was gonna go to law school. I was just being boringly sensible; trying to be a singer felt a bit indulgent.

Oh my goodness, do I aspire to be like Gisele? I just turned 23, I'm enjoying being young and focusing on my career.

For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.

When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think is good, if I can become an obscure cult artist, that's all I want. Well, I attained that. I'm an obscure cult artist, and I think now, Why didn't I say I want to be another Picasso or something? What other options were open to me? But I was convinced I couldn't achieve great things because I don't have a steady-state mind.

I haven't thought about aspirations for the future. I like politics, I like serving the public, and we'll see if God offers us another opportunity in the future.

Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one like a crown, and ever after no one questioned or fretted over it, being sure of one’s own use in the world. It was only that somehow her crown had not yet appeared. She did hope it would hurry up.

I'd like to think that I have a plan, but you can't really pick what scripts you're going to get or what movie is going to come along.

Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.

What's next for me? I don't know. So I'm in exactly the same boat as many of you.

I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.

I don't have much desire to move to LA much yet. I don't think you can expect it any time soon, but who knows what can happen in the future.