William Faulkner Quotes

Perhaps I will stay in Chicago and operate on human beings instead of on dogs. From a business standpoint, it would be excellent. But, as I hate medical practice, I would like better to make little money in doing scientific work than a great deal in doing surgical operations.

All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.

I don't direct movies for a living.

I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

I like being a writer.

I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.

At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and surgery shows. Blood is not an issue for me. I even took pictures once of me getting my blood taken.

My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.