Nyle DiMarco Quotes

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

I gave up the idea of having a career when I was 24. Sounds glamorous, but I've been doing things since then, and part of those adventures was to make films because I realised I was actually quite good at it and I enjoyed it.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

I don't know what kind of career I want to forge for myself. But I want it to be one where I love the work that I've done. And I like to think that I have good instincts.

Don't manage your career. Follow your dream and contribute.

I've never had a big dream to be a manager, but I'm a curious guy, and I want to see if I like it.

My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.

I had these false ambitions - marketing and MBA. I didn't do very badly at it, but I realised my calling was something else.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.