I told my parents I
I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It’s not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends’ dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor.
– Allison Williams
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- I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist. – Hugh Jackman
- My generation’s parents told their children, ‘Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.’ But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that’s hard to outsource, hard to automate. – Daniel H. Pink
- Whether you’re a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts. – Frederick Wiseman
- I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment, so they’re just happy I’m in work! – Emilia Clarke
- My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don’t think I would have been very happy. I’d be in front of the jury singing. – Jennifer Lopez
- My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, ‘Why don’t you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?’ They never said that. – Carine Roitfeld
- When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me. – Ben Barnes
- I’ve been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself. – Rick Schroeder
- I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age. – Johnnie Cochran