Kyle Lowry Quotes

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

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

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.

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.

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.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

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.

The way I see it is if I can't be happy doing this job, which is my dream job, then what's going to make me happy in life?

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.

More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

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.

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

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.