Jesse Spencer Quotes

If I was working nine to five, acting would be my hobby... I always feel like maybe I should do an Open University degree. But I'm never going to.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.

It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.

I always wanted to have a family - that was one of my big wishes. And in school, I'd taken drama, and I'd always wanted to act. I did go to drama school in New York, Los Angeles and London, and I did small parts here and there, but I never really had the time. Modeling was always paying more.

In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

I always wanted to become a doctor but then my plans changed gradually.

No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

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

Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.

I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses, luckily, and backed out, and decided to go to drama school.

I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your career. You might have to look for more than one passion. Some passions may afford a career and some may not.

I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.

My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university.

There was a time when I wanted to be a lawyer, or even a professional triathlete... But nothing could come close to the passion I have for acting.