Alternative Occupations Quotes

I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.

I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

I happen to have a college education and I never planned on being a fighter.

We actors have lives beyond the film industry too!

I never wanted to be an engineer.

My father said to me at one time, 'If you are still a disc jockey by the time you are 30, you better find another line of work.' Little does he realize, I am in my 70s, and I still do seven or eight hours of radio every day - or every week.

It's difficult to say what I would be doing if I wasn't a footballer, but I probably would have sold coal like my father. Studying was never my thing, and I would surely have ended up working with my dad.

There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.

I've never disguised the fact that I wasn't happy in teaching. But the reason was that I wanted to do comedy. I would have been a very unhappy security guard or a very unhappy greengrocer.

We have to make a living and you can't do that playing bluegrass.

Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

People have asked me, 'What would you have done if you hadn't gone into the Army?' I'd say I'd probably be a bus driver. I don't know.

I did not want to be an engineer or be in information technology, and my parents were supportive of my decision.

I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.

If I wasn't a model, I don't know what I'd do, but I would be working just as hard at whatever it was.

Hell, if I didn't do stunts, I'd have had to be a bartender, or something else that didn't pay well.

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

I would have - I didn't really have to be an athlete. I could have been, you know - worked in fast food, been a janitor, anything. I would have had two or three jobs, working long hours, you know, to support myself and for my family in the future. I would have been successful.

Actors can't retire. What would they do?

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

I do not wish to work in the TV industry anymore.