Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.
I became an actor when I was 22.
I didn't really want to be a comedian.
Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.
I started doing theatre, and that's when I really fell in love with the profession; I learned a lot. It felt a bit weird to go from living in New York on Broadway to university, so I kept putting it off. Then, eventually, I had to give up the place.
I wouldn't have taken up modeling as a profession. It was more of a hobby.
I didn't choose to be an actress.
If I hadn't gone into acting, then I would have perhaps become an animator.
I wanted to be a topographer when I was young.
If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.
Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.
I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.
I wanted to be an actress at a very early age and then decided to become an orthodontist after working in Dr. Richard Boyd's office in high school.
There was a brief period of time when I was very young where I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian - largely because I liked cats - but then somebody told me I would have to cut animals open, and that was the end of that.
The first thing I ever wanted to be was a lawyer, because I love arguing. But I'm very lazy. I'm intelligent, but I'm very lazy, so it seemed like a bit too much.
I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a magician.
Someone doesn't think immediately, "I want to be a lobbyist."
Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.
Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
I never thought of politics as a profession.
The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.
I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.
I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.
I studied law, so perhaps I might have made it to the Bar, though I gave up that idea when I suspected playing a barrister was probably much more fun than being one.
