Frederic Chopin Quotes

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

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 have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'

I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

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

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.

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.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

I won't give up my day job of design.

Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob.

I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

Personally, I have nothing to fall back on, and that creates a weird ambition that you have to be good at acting because you can't be good at anything else. I wish I had gone for my degree - that acting wasn't this be-all-and-end-all.

I'd had a variety of jobs - shop assistant, writer of children's magazines - but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite an uninformed sports journalist so I might have stuck with that, but I would never have been very good at it.

I'm a lot happier on RAW. I actually can't overthink how much better I think I am on RAW than I was on Smackdown. And I don't really know the reason why that is. I feel like I look more at home here, and I feel like I look like I belong here. It's pretty obvious that RAW's the place for me.

I'd get another job before I would play music I don't enjoy. But then, I'm really not qualified to do anything else.

I was happy being a lawyer, and the thought of becoming a model or even actor never came to my mind, even though I knew I looked good.

I was having a nice anonymous little time as a writer. I really was on the writer path. I was sort of minding my own business. I loved making a living in music.