Frank Stella Quotes

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 was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

You know, I'm still deciding what I'm going to be when I grow up.

I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

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 thought I'd be spending my life making brooms, mops, chairs and things. That's fine for some blind people, but I wanted something more out of life. Music seemed the best way.

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.

Sometime in your teens you have to decide what you want to do. I knew it had to be cinema.

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.

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

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

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.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.

I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all got this level of passion about either or both of those directions that I've never really found myself having.