Shreya Ghoshal Quotes

While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

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.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.

When I was young, I didn't like going to school, but I loved my dad. He was my professor.

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

I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun - I liked it for an actual job.

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.

Much before I entered films, my dad walked into my room and saw me busy drawing something at 3 A.M. He stood there for some time and said, 'Whatever career choice you make, you are going to be successful.' I'll never forget those words. It gave me the confidence to be who I am today.

Growing up, I always said I would never go in to education. Both of my parents were teachers - my dad was also a principal and a superintendent. I just didn't want to be part of the school system.

[My mother] pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.

I've been acting since I was ten years old. I had two lines in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the community theater I was very focused and I loved it. My parents believed in the arts and being well rounded. So I played piano and violin, I danced and acted. They never thought I would go into acting though. They just wanted a well-rounded child and it was a bit of a shock to my dad when I said "I want to go to acting school" because he is a psychology professor and was thinking of something more academic.

Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel that my father, had he lived longer, might have been a touch disapproving of some of my career - I think he might have tutted a bit at 'Men Behaving Badly.'

I didn't really want to sing at first, but my dad insisted that I do.

My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.

My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.

I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York City. They would never put me into acting. I just kind of wanted it, and I told them that.

Dad was convinced always that I was going to be a road sweeper.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer.

My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.

My mother really wanted me to go to school and to university, but I was adamant that I wanted to be a football player.

Both my parents are well educated; my father worked for the CBI before becoming a businessman, and my mother was a civil surgeon. But I did not want to be a doctor.