Aldis Hodge Quotes

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it.

I didn't know whether to join the army or go to art college.

I didn't have a career; I made films. It's very different.

I wanted to direct more than I wanted to act. And I found I couldn't do everything.

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something which is elusive all the time.

My family didn't want me to be a musician, and therefore, they never helped out in my efforts.

I had a blind belief in myself and became a music director and an actor.

Since I was a child, everyone would ask me what I wanted to do when I grew up. Was I going to be a designer? It's as if there was a path drawn for me, and I could see, from where I was standing, exactly where it ended.

Since I liked to draw, I entered a design-oriented high school.

I know that my father was a little nervous about me pursuing a career in the arts.

There came a time when I had to decide between show business and devoting my full time to medical training. I chose show business.

I went to school for economics, and especially in Asian culture it's not really a viable job for my family to be an artist.

After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing.

I did not become an actor to earn money - that I could have done it in my village by becoming a farmer. I wanted to show my craft, which I am so passionate about.

My mother used to say that when I told her that I wanted to be an artist, her famous line was, 'The only artists I've ever heard of are dead.' It just wasn't in her experience... I don't think she had a sense that one could be an artist, because there wasn't anyone in my family who had done that.

Music was something I chose that I came to as a kid, and acting was something that was suggested to me.

If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'

I'm glad I've had the comic work. I plan to do others, but I could lay it down if I had to choose. I hope I don't have to, though.

I'm a watch guy - to me, they symbolize hard work and determination.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

I've been very lucky. I made a choice, getting out of school, to follow the work and the people that really struck my heartstrings; 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' was one of those - maybe it was an accident.

When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.

I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.