Sarah Douglas Quotes

Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.

With 'Lady Macbeth,' I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.

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 don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.