Rory Kinnear Quotes

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.

College wasn't something I saw myself doing.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law degree?' I kind of looked around me and thought, 'What kind of idiot am I that I've just spent the last 10 years writing novels? Financially, I'm pretty much where I was when I was 28.'

I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'

The future is wide open. I may actually go back and get that law degree someday.

In my head, I felt if I'd stayed at City and got a chance, I could have done a good job. It was made clear that wasn't going to happen, though.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.

I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.

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.

Going to college was something that I didn't want to do.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

I wish I could have skipped college.

I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'

I do wish I'd had a better career. Who wouldn't?

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

People have asked me, 'What would you have done if you hadn't gone into the Army?' I'd say I'd probably be a bus driver. I don't know.

I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.

There are times when I wish I would have gotten a degree, but the past is history, and tomorrow's a mystery.

You can always go back, to coaching. You can't go back to spending time with your family.