Unconventional Career Quotes

At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.

When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery and die teaching other people's children badly.' My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that.

I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job.

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.

None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.

I got 'Delhi Belly' and 'Badmaash Company' because people from the production house had seen my stand-up comic acts in a DVD that was lying in their offices. It's been a weird journey, and I think weird goes with me.

I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'

My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.

I am a gypsy, in a way. It's a condition of my profession.

Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.

I'm the only person I know who's never had a regular job.

I haven't had to do anything outside of show business my whole life. I've never been a waiter. I've only worked and gotten paid. It hasn't been a classic example of someone slogging through the business.

When it's all over I might be able to say I've had the strangest career in pro football history.

My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.

My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'

I would be doing anything to avoid a 9-5 job and high heels. Lifeguard, beach volleyball player, whatever.

I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything, I just knew that I loved dancing.

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice.

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.

I'm proud to say that I've never had a normal job. I started doing stand-up when I was in high school, purely as a measure to never get a proper job.

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.