Kevin Magnussen Quotes

If I hadn't made it as a footballer I would have been an electrician. I studied to be an electrician even though I was progressing at football because you never know at that stage if you are going to be there for sure.

I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.

I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something.

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.

I was a welder for about three or four months, and I was lucky enough to get out of it because there was a guy who wanted to support me and pay for my racing.

Another occupation might have been better.

After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself.

I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

I never planned on being a plumber.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.

I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job.

I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.