Domino Kirke Quotes

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

I was really into films when I was younger, but I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn't know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn't want to do any of the courses.

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

At first I didn't know if I wanted to do TV again. I can get bored quickly.

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'

A month before I booked 'This Is Us,' I was like, 'Maybe I should move to Montreal and work in a coffee shop.'

I was at Sussex University studying English lit and philosophy, I had two essays due in and three seminars that day, and at the same time I was messaging my manager because I'd just started to put together the pieces of like, 'Wow. I really don't want to be doing any essays anymore. Why don't I just give this music thing a go?'

I did everything, I thought I was going to be in marketing, then I thought advertising then I thought I was going to be an architect and then I was like 'you know what, let me just be a soap star!'

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film.

I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.

I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had an orientation class and we met this guy where he worked and stuff and it was cool, but I was like, 'There is no way this is going to be my life.'

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.