Ruben Santiago-Hudson Quotes

If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

I've always wanted to work with children, to help people, and to be funny.

Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.

To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.

My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.

The end of all education should surely be service to others

Humanitarian work is something I've felt from very young, and I'm going to do that for sure.

I grew up going to church every Sunday and my mother was a drug and alcohol counselor, so both of my parents' lives have been about helping people at times of crisis.

I want to be more than just an artist and be a people's person and do a lot of stuff for people.

I really enjoy charity work and helping people.

My day goes by coordinating things like transport for migrant workers, taking government permissions, organizing food among other things. And I feel very happy and satisfied. If I was shooting, I wouldn't have had all the time in the world. Now, that I have all the time, it is important to give that to the needy.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.

I want to do something to help people.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

I love helping the kids.

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.

There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.