Joe Bastianich Quotes

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to see where it takes me.

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

The family's dream was to see me receive a high degree abroad and to return to become a university professor - on the door to my study room, a sign was placed reading 'Dr. Ahmed,' even though I was still far from becoming a doctor.

When people ask what my ambitions are for the rest of my career, I always say that I live in the present.

A question that I can't answer is: what do you want to do next? What's your dream role? What are you really looking to do? Where do you see yourself? It doesn't make any sense because that's such an outsider's perspective.

I don't hate the idea of retirement. I am looking forward to it.

I just hope I get picked by the right team and the team that really wants me and a team where I can help and take it to the next level.

I would love to be in a zone concept every once in a while. Probably later on in my career.

I hope my career will be long-term. It's not something I'm taking for granted, but we try to plan that way.

When I was a young girl, I used to dream about what I would be when I grew up. I thought that I wanted to be a nurse, then a teacher, even a pilot at one point.

When I was a kid, I thought I would be an entrepreneur and maybe at some point go into law school.

I want to do films that will make an impact and project me in a different way.

It wasn't until people started asking me what my plans were for the future - if I would go to college or go pro - that it really hit me what I wanted to do. I decided I wanted to go pro and try to be in Wimbledon.

I would like to do some non-film stuff.

I'm very career-minded.

I've always been very ambitious, and I always knew that I wanted something else. Cuba was a good start, but I knew I wasn't going to develop a real career, and I wanted to get closer to filmmakers that I wanted to work with.

My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian.

I always thought about carrying on training and working, chasing my dream.

What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?

What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?

There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard

To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'

There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve.