"My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!"
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The intent is simple: stake a claim on agency. "Enjoy what I do" isn’t leisure talk - it’s a demand that labor be aligned with identity, a very late-20th-century ideal sold to kids who were told passion could function like a compass. Then she tightens the screw with the fear that powers the whole engine: regret. "Never to look back" frames life as a one-way runway; the only real failure is hesitating.
The UCLA detail is revealing because it’s oddly specific and culturally loaded. It signals a pre-fame moment where institutional prestige stood in for possibility. Even as an actress, she invokes the university as a credibility machine - a hedge against the idea that entertainment isn’t "real" achievement. "Become someone great" lands as both aspirational and anxious: greatness as status, as safety, as legibility. The subtext is that being "someone" is not guaranteed; it has to be earned in public, with receipts.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Kunis, Mila. (2026, January 16). My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life! FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-goal-in-life-is-to-enjoy-what-i-do-and-never-88742/
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Kunis, Mila. "My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!" FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-goal-in-life-is-to-enjoy-what-i-do-and-never-88742/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!" FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-goal-in-life-is-to-enjoy-what-i-do-and-never-88742/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.





