Courteney Cox Had a Surprising Plan B If Acting Didn't Work Out

If acting didn't work out for the "Friends" and "Scream" franchise star, she had a fallback as a pool salesman for her dad's business lined up."My dad thought I should give up [on acting], really. What happened was, I hadn't worked in a long time. And I only had enough money to live about two weeks," Cox said about her 1987 crossroads moment during her 1 March interview on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." She continued, "[My dad] was like, 'CeCe,' — that's my nickname — 'You need to come home. It's a long fall from Los Angeles to Birmingham [Alabama], and this is time to pack it in. And you are a salesman; you're a damned good salesman. You need to do what you do best.'"

Cox was about to throw in the towel, but the next day, she got a call informing her she'd been picked for what would be her breakout role on "Family Ties" as Michael J. Fox's girlfriend, Lauren Miller. The rest was history!

If you follow Cyrus on Instagram, you know she has quite a gift for snapping fun and controversial selfies, so it only makes sense that she would love to do that full-time. "I do want to come to London to study photography," she told the Daily Record. "I hear there are some really great art schools, so I would love to do that. I got to work with an amazing photographer. [Annie] Leibovitz was amazing and so talented. And that's what I want to do with my life. I would love to be a photographer."

When she's not making us laugh in her many TV roles, Longoria is making deals and building her empire. And if she weren't acting at all, she would take it on full-time. "I would definitely be in corporate America," she told People. "I love business. I love quotas and budgets, and I like barometers of success. I like measurements of success."

Believe it or not, Clooney actually wanted to become a Major League Baseball player before he made it big in Hollywood. The actor was so determined that he even tried out for the Cincinnati Reds when he was a teenager.

Before finding fame on "Modern Family," Vergara was actually very close to becoming a dentist, but she dropped out two semesters before graduation to become a TV host.

Malike's debut solo album, "Mind of Mine," definitely proved that he has a way with words, so it's no surprise that he would be studying to be an English teacher if he weren't topping the charts. "If I wasn't doing this, I'd be at uni. I wanted to, and still quite want to, do an English degree," he told The Sun.

The One Direction singer has been making the hearts of teenage girls race for years now, but if he weren't in the limelight, he would want to actually be rehabilitating people. "I always wanted to be a physiotherapist," he told Top of the Pops magazine. "Before I was in the band, I was studying, so I'd probably be working hard and studying for that."

Pitt just seems like the ultimate handyman who could fix and build just about anything, and it turns out, he kind of is. During his interview on "Inside the Actors Studio," he admitted that if he hadn't gone into acting, he would have wanted to try to be an architect.

Thanks to "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," the world has seen Kardashian's impressive detective skills when it comes to tapping into someone's voicemail and secretly following people around town. And if she weren't a reality star, she admitted she "would be a forensic investigator and live a normal life."