Giada De Laurentiis Quotes

I'm not ready to decide if modeling is what I want to do with my life.

I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.

For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

I had to decide if I wanted to race full time or be an architect. I decided I could always go back to school.

I did not want to be an engineer or be in information technology, and my parents were supportive of my decision.

My dad wanted me to be a businessman, but I felt that wasn't for me.

I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not to take any mathematics courses.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

Everyone from my high school and junior college are now doctors and lawyers. I came from that kind of environment, but I chose to go on another path, even though I did promise my parents that I would get a degree. After that, I could do anything I wanted; that was the deal.

I'm not sure what I want to do - business, law, something else.

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

I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.

There've been times I felt like, 'I don't know if I want to do this.' That maybe I should go back to school and become a special-education teacher. But I love entertaining.

I am very cautious, and there are not too many decisions I've not discussed with my parents, whether that be about my career or away from the field.