Oscar Wilde Quotes

I don't think, because I'm going to school for something else, that I will stop being an actress.

I wanted to be an engineer or a nurse.

This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

The thought of me wanting to act was not an option when I was growing up, so I was getting my teaching credential.

I guess because there aren't many women working in the kind of variety of spaces that I've had the opportunity and privilege to kind of work in, that there is this extreme scrutiny about my career.

My path has been, I think, a path a lot of women can foresee themselves taking.

Young people want to work.

If I only worked in England for the rest of my life, I wouldn't feel like I failed.

I feel unfulfilled in England. I think I'm a decent manager and a very good coach. I've still got a lot to offer some club who will maybe take a chance on me.

I come from a family of working professionals: my dad is a chartered accountant, and my mom is a professor.

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

Most of those whom we honor on Memorial Day died young. They never had the chance to raise a family, build a career, attend the weddings of their children, or be honored in old age.

I was a history undergrad, and there's some things I could do in academics or business.

I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all.

I'm quite sure there are other things that I could have done in life whether it's working for Humana, teaching in college, high school teacher. Coaching stuck.

I am so proud to be a manager in England.

Everyone wants to pencil you in as the kind of player that you're going to be after a few years in the big leagues. When you're still really young, they think that's what you're going to be forever.

I thought that's what you did, you know? You graduate high school, you went to work.

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.

I know I won't be a manager, I don't want to do it, never.

Never pursue literature as a trade.

I kept thinking that with all those first jobs, "This is the beginning of something!" And then nothing would happen. That's the real Hollywood.

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

No matter how many possibilities turn into reality, an infinite number remain.