Gus Van Sant Quotes

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

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

I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.

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 wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

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

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).

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I have to say, I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan, and I'm still not.

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.

I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

I think it's okay not knowing what you want to become.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

My father always used to ask me what my aim in life is. I used to tell him I don't have any.

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.

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've been able to chart out my professional life. But I can never chart out my personal one.