Nikki Cox Quotes

If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.

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 chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field.

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

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

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

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.

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

I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn't clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead.

I told my mom for years that I wanted to be a manicurist, and she'd always be like, 'But what if you went to college and you got a degree?' She'd try to explain how I could actually do a thing that would make me a ton of money, or that I didn't have to just pick the business that was closest to our house.

I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.

I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun - I liked it for an actual job.

I could be earning a lot of money as a consultant, or gone higher in education.

Looking back, I believe that acting was the best that I could do. It just happened. I kept getting good offers, and the going has been good.

I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter.

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

I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'

The decisions you make when you leave school define the rest of your life. So, in terms of making the right choices for your financial security as you get older, my best advice is to do something you have an interest in and are passionate about, as you'll be working for a long time.

It's the failure of my debut film which made me an actor, which made me want to succeed in the industry. But that doesn't mean I regret whatever choices I've made over the years. No, not even 'Kaiyethum Doorathu!'

I always knew that I wanted to be an actor. I made my debut on stage when I was 12, and I was sure that this is what made me happy. However, nobody takes a 12-year-old's career choice seriously. Everybody laughed it off. I also ran away from it, but acting eventually found me.

I turned out to be a very good cement-mixer.

I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.

As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.