career change quotes

If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

I didn’t want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn’t my environment.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.