Jeff Dunham Quotes

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.

I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate.

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important decision in my career: to start a residency in clinical medicine, in surgery, which was my favorite choice, or to enroll into graduate school and start a career in scientific research. It was clear to me that I was heading for graduate school.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

Career is a mindset. The wrong mindset. Career is linear. Especially when you are trapped in the TV or film world. The next thing you do has always got to be bigger, or it is perceived as a failure.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.

I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my father was an actor. My mother was an actress. So, I thought theater might be the way to go.

I want to go to college, and I want to keep acting and singing.

I don't know what drives me. I need to work. I wanted to be in the entertainment field, but I didn't know what.

When I started acting, I didn't think of it as a career. I always thought Hollywood was this magical world where a fairy came down and said, 'Come live with the Munchkins; you are now one of us.' I didn't understand the concept of it as a career. I thought I would save up enough money to go to college.

If you get someone right out of college - and I meet a lot of them - you're not going to get a lot of experience at all, so you have to feel the ambition and desire, which is based on a lot of factors.

I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

One day I woke up, and I felt like I knew I wanted to be an analyst and a broadcaster.

I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director or actress.

I had no ambition to go into show business when I was growing up. I started out as an advertising copywriter and evolved into it. Once you get into it, however, it's very difficult to get out. It gets into your blood. You don't want to do anything else. You want that excitement.

I got serious about performing, and I got serious about acting. It's very funny; singing has always been a very separate thing for me - until I went to college. I just studied musical theater because I was like, 'That means I can study voice and acting in the same major, and I won't have to double major.' Now I do musicals for a living.

My heart is just being in this industry. I've been lucky enough to have been in films, plays, and on radio.