I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.
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Always have a backup plan.
You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan!
I now have a plan - I haven't had a plan up until this year.
My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.
In the past, my success has come with sticking to one plan. That usually works. Obviously it's going to falter, and I'm going to go into slumps here and there, but stick with the plan, and hopefully it will come out successful more times than not.
I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.
I don't think that I've ever been a backup.
I always say don't make plans, make options.
I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.