Job Alternatives Quotes

Every day, I'm working on my aviation career so that I don't have to think about working as an actor.

I'm quite sure there are other things that I could have done in life whether it's working for Humana, teaching in college, high school teacher. Coaching stuck.

If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.

You've gotta realize this - you could be working at Burger King or working for the biggest wrestling company in the world.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

There were definitely a few ways I could have gone after 'Totally Biased' ended. One of those was getting a job at Starbucks.

Don't get a job in an abattoir. Don't be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal's head off for a living.

Another occupation might have been better.

I have chosen this job. If I didn't like it, I would have chosen something else. I can't go out and say that 'I don't like it.'

I have made it possible for many colored women to abandon the washtub for a more pleasant and profitable occupation.

Everybody is replaceable; nobody is irreplaceable here. If I'm going to say no to it because I want to do two films a year and sit at home, someone else will.

Everything I've done goes back to pro wrestling. Had I not been able to achieve what I did, I guarantee you... my high school jobs were always working in the highway department - driving dump trucks, patching up roads, digging ditches, driving a forklift.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

When I went into a start-up in tech, I knew I could always go back to a law firm.

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

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.

It's either join the workforce or become a professional athlete, and I'd rather be a pro athlete.

We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor, in my experience.

If I only did theatre I would have had to waitress, and I didn't want to waitress.

If it violates me physically, then it's not worth it to me. There will always be another job where you don't have to take your clothes off or have a gutter mouth.

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

I hate when rappers do interviews. They say stuff like, 'If I wasn't doing this, I'd be dead or in jail.' Like, damn, those are the only two options? What about managing Kinkos?

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.