Alternative Plans Quotes

I want to get into politics so I can make a decent salary and do something that isn't all that difficult. But if politics don't work out I'm going to be a welder.

I was sent off to study in Georgia to keep me from movies. When I outgrow this film career, I will become a practicing doctor. I want to specialize in cardiology.

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

Some people are born and train their whole life to be an NBA player. But some people, if it doesn't work out, then they have no other option.

I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant.

Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.

I went to university and studied English literature, and I forgot about music. I was gonna be a journalist. But then I decided to try and be a backing singer, and my mum was like, "Go for it." If that didn't work, I was gonna go to law school. I was just being boringly sensible; trying to be a singer felt a bit indulgent.

I didn't go to prom - I DJ'd all my proms.

Even when I was doing well in acting, my dad would say, 'You can still go back to dental school.' But since I've been on '90210,' I haven't heard that.

I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. But I didn't get a good rank, so I got civil engineering.

Americans believe if you go to college, you have something to fall back on, which makes sense. I don't have any degrees. If I hadn't become a golfer, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life.

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

I have several plan Bs: I want to become a sailor; I like to draw; I would love to learn many things, but I don't have time.

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

It is fine to be all focused on gymnastics if that is what you want to do, but once you are finished with gymnastics, what are you going to do?

I'm not going to get an Oscar at 30 - that's done. So I'll think of something else.

As a manager, when you can't get your first target do you go and spend on your second, third, fourth choice?

I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something.

I want to go to China or coach or play arena football.

If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest.