I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.
I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That's why I became a comic.
I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
I am a pretty good lawyer, and I decided to close the office and to enter politics.
What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.
I went to school to be a psychiatrist. That's where I was going until I had a teacher-student conference with one of my teachers and there were film school pamphlets, and he said, "You don't belong here. Get out. Go to film school."
I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.
As an actor, you get a bit itchy to do something entirely different.
I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.
I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.
People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
