Deborra-Lee Furness Quotes

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

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

Some teachers used to worry and ask me, 'What are you going to be when you 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'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

I'm not ready to decide if modeling is what I want to do with my life.

Most young people want to get out of the environment they grow up in, move on, and do something. The big question for everyone is what they want to do and how. It's something that most young people feel.

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 don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.

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

I could never really decide what I wanted to be when I grew up, and for a while, I thought that maybe I wanted to be a writer... I've always loved to write, that form of expression.

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.

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

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

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I'd like to think there's still a lot for me to do, you know?

I've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?

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.