Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.
I didn't really want to be a comedian.
I became an actor when I was 22.
Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.
I started doing theatre, and that's when I really fell in love with the profession; I learned a lot. It felt a bit weird to go from living in New York on Broadway to university, so I kept putting it off. Then, eventually, I had to give up the place.
I wouldn't have taken up modeling as a profession. It was more of a hobby.
I didn't choose to be an actress.
If I hadn't gone into acting, then I would have perhaps become an animator.
I wanted to be a topographer when I was young.
If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.
Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.
There was a brief period of time when I was very young where I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian - largely because I liked cats - but then somebody told me I would have to cut animals open, and that was the end of that.
I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.
I wanted to be an actress at a very early age and then decided to become an orthodontist after working in Dr. Richard Boyd's office in high school.
Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.
Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
The first thing I ever wanted to be was a lawyer, because I love arguing. But I'm very lazy. I'm intelligent, but I'm very lazy, so it seemed like a bit too much.
I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a magician.
The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
Someone doesn't think immediately, "I want to be a lobbyist."
I never thought of politics as a profession.
I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.
I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.
I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.
I studied law, so perhaps I might have made it to the Bar, though I gave up that idea when I suspected playing a barrister was probably much more fun than being one.
