Quotes About Career

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.

There was a time when I was 23 years old that I thought my career was over because I couldn't move my hand. It turned out it was just a pinched nerve.

While I was playing, I started a company that didn't work out. I got a taste of the business world and realized I'm not going to be a 9-to-5 guy in the office after football is over. When the opportunity came for television. I thought, 'Let's go for it,' even though it was nerve-racking. I enjoyed it.

I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.

I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.

So, suddenly I was an actor. I don't remember being nervous. I learned to be nervous later.

With one film after another becoming a hit, nervousness only grows.

'Cuckoo's Nest' was my first film, and I had wanted to do film for some time, but somehow I had not clicked. I would go in for interviews or readings, and I never had the sense that I was anywhere near what they were looking for.

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

I want to be a Net for my entire career.

I was in a play just outside of London and started auditioning for 'Sex Education,' but I just completely had the mindset that it's a Netflix show, they're not gonna hire me anyway.

If I get the chance to coach Netherlands, I would like to take that chance.

Becoming Netherlands coach could be a nice end to my career.

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

I always wanted to be a part of a New York-based label, so I've worked really hard to try and network with people that I felt would put me in the right place.

The whole MS stuff put the kibosh on my career. And I sort of let it go. I even have a friend who went to CBS and said, 'I want Teri Garr to be in this series,' and the head of the network said, 'Oh no, she's got MS.'

I was on network TV for about 15 years or so, which I loved.

Learning networking basics is only a gateway to career growth and exploration.

As an actor, there is so much more than just acting in the film. A lot of other things like networking and marketing is involved.

I'm always networking, that's the name of the game.

What the Internet has done is made it easier to stay in touch with people, and social networking has helped me career-wise by helping me keep in touch with my fans.