Do I appear to you to have come to a wrong decision, if I devote that time to philosophy, which I otherwise should have spent at the loom?
The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.
In my personal life, I was quite a different Boy Next Door than the one Mr. and Mrs. Middle America imagined me to be.
For vocational workers, their pay should reflect their skills and difficulty of labour. To be skilled in a craft should be accepted as an alternative path.
At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.
Making a Different Choice Gives You the Opportunity to Live a Different Life.
Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.
I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.
When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.
I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.
The fact I'm blind has been a great help to my career. If I'd been sighted I'd have played baseball and got into trouble like all other kids on my block.
Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.
I never thought I'd end up coaching. It wasn't the plan.
To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.
The guitar saved me from a life of crime as a teenager.
I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.
I went into dancing but damaged my knees so decided to become an actress instead.
I didn't study writing or drama or anything like that... that was not really a viable route for me.
Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.
I'd love to try my hand at something else.
