Jake T. Austin

It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted to be a firefighter, but then acting came along. I have to have a plan B.

American Actor

Margaret Atwood

I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.

Canadian Novelist

Paul Polman

I wanted to be a priest. I could have done that. I wanted to be a doctor. I could have done that. Circumstances didn't lead me to it, so my fallback option was business. I wasn't really motivated to this.

Dutch Businessman

Tom Junod

A lot of people like to say that they have trouble getting gifts. I have trouble giving them. It's not out of a lack of generosity, mind you. My fallback is to go big, no matter what the occasion.

American Journalist

Tim Kaine

In politics, you've got to have a fallback in our line of work because your career can be over in an instant. Not that I would make much money playing a harmonica.

American Politician

Karl Rove

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

Oscar Isaac

I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.

Guatemalan Actor

Merritt Wever

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

American Actress

Andrew Rannells

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

Lou Barlow

Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness.

American Musician

Fallback can imply a secondary plan, often less ideal but reliable.

Plan B

A fallback isn't your first choice; it's what you resort to when needed.

Not Primary

Fallback evokes a sense of security, as an alternative is ready.

Security Sense

In computing, fallback often involves solving technical failures.

Tech Troubleshooting

In technical contexts, a fallback is a pre-planned safety net.

Pre-Planned Action

Fallback denotes returning to a functional, secure state.

Recovery Step

When used as an adjective, fallback describes a substitute role or item.

Substitute Role

Adjective fallback signifies something kept as a precaution.

Just in Case

As an adjective, it gives a sense of support or backup.

Supportive Notion

 And often, when the political difficulty of a proposal becomes too difficult in a market-oriented approach, the fallback is with regulation,