Samuel Alito Quotes

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

I treaded water academically and spent much of my summertime as a camp counselor. It seemed a fun thing to do for a person in no way prepared to commit to a career path.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.

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

I couldn't wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn't actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don't really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that's what I wanted to do.

I was a late developer. For years, I was searching. I was a lost soul something your parents despair of and your peers deride. It isn't at all happy trying to find the right career.

I didn't want to come to the end of my career and think, 'What next?'

I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.

Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?

I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.