Alternative Career Quotes

I think if I had to choose another profession, I'd like to be a judge because I'm very capable of determining what's right and what's not.

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've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

Every day, I'm working on my aviation career so that I don't have to think about working as an actor.

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.

I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

When I first started out acting, I didn't have anything to lose. I had another career. If I fell on my face, I could say, 'I'll see ya,' and go back to working.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

I've often been told that if music doesn't work out I could be a comedian.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career as a feature filmmaker.

In a pinch, I could always get work in pictures as a makeup artist.

Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!

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

I don't have a normal job, so I don't consider retiring.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.

If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.

I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my (teaching) degree and then I'll see what happens, but I'll always have that to fall back on.' So if anybody were to look at me and say, 'Oh, you're an actor,' I could always say, 'Hey man, I'm a teacher!'

That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

I started doing yoga in my 20s. I did teacher training, that was what I was going to do if acting didn't work out. I started teaching other actors right at the beginning of the yoga craze - people still thought it was a little weird, but a lot of actors I knew were getting into it and didn't want to look foolish in class. So I started teaching them!

I'd be a chef if I wasn't a musician, that's for sure.

If I hadn't gone into acting, then I would have perhaps become an animator.