Sydney Sweeney Quotes

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

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

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

My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

I never intended to go into the family business. I've always been drawn to wanting to do something else at some time in my life.

Part of me, even when I was trying to get acting jobs, I was still kind of thinking, 'Oh I should do something else with my life.'

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

I didn't really want to be an actor when I was growing up - I wanted to be whatever I was reading about or seeing at the time. When I read The Firm I wanted to be a lawyer; when I saw Top Gun, I wanted to be a fighter pilot. So that's why acting probably turned out to be a good thing for me because I get to be people for five minutes or 90 minutes. I'd be curious to see if I had the attention span to be like those guys on 30 Rock and play the same character season after season.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

I could easily not act again. It's not a problem.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.

I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.

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

I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else.

I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.

Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'

Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do.

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!