Gwilym Lee Quotes

When I started playing, my parents told me to go to university. They just said choose wisely and find something you can combine with training.

I grew up in a family with three siblings. My parents were always very supportive and encouraging. It was important for them that we have meaningful and satisfying professions, but they didn't care as much about success and achievement.

My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing.

I couldn't live my life the way I do if my parents weren't supportive.

Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

Essentially, my parents directed me in the right path. They were all for me turning professional and starting that journey as a family with my golf career.

I remember that when I was little, my parents felt that I should study to become a teacher. They thought football was a waste of time and I'd never succeed at it.

My dad had a huge influence on my career.

My mother was a housewife. My father worked in the agriculture business, but they were very encouraging about everything. When I said I wanted to do art, they were very supportive.

I was very lucky in that I had a happy home life and that I was interested in things my parents wanted to provide for me.

I hail from a small town. My parents were never apprehensive about my decision to take up acting - they've been a constant support to me.

I'm not going to sit here and go to college for something that I don't care about.

I was very lucky: a lot of people go through the college system not knowing what they want to do. Thankfully my parents were very supportive of my choices and pretty much gave me free reign.

I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.

They were very supportive parents in all my endeavors. They have very different approaches on how they give advice.

I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn't clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead.

My parents never said to me, 'Why don't you go and get a real profession?' And that really helped.

I always wanted to be an actress, but my parents were adamant that I complete my studies first before I take up acting.

I had always wanted to go to college but found my life taking a different path.

My parents went out of their way for me ever since I left school. When I was 15, I said to Mum, 'I'm leaving school,' and she was like, 'Okay.' I joined a cover band and played three nights a week, and they were really supportive of that.

My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don't earn any money that way. But when they realised it was genuinely what I wanted to do, they supported me always.