Quotes About Career

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.

I was having a hard time getting interest from future employers because of my physics background. It seemed all anyone wanted was engineers.

My A-levels were physics, chemistry and maths. Science is fascinating but I wouldn't say I have used it since then. I decided to do economics.

Actors have to maintain their physique, or they will fizzle out!

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

I'm lucky enough to be doing my dream job, but my second dream job would be to be a concert pianist.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.

I haven't been an actor who's been able to pick and choose roles, and being a family man, it's been about putting food on the table.

When you start your career, you act in all kinds of movies. You don't pick and choose. But later on, you may feel that there were some films where you should have given a second thought before saying yes.

About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

TV sort of picked up for me before my theater career did.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.

I don't know why it was canceled, but 'Mancuso, FBI,' it should have had a good long run, but it wasn't picked up. Maybe there was a problem with me. I have no idea.

I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.

I've always tried to have a pretty discerning eye with the roles that I've picked, which is maybe why it seems like I take breaks, but really, they're not breaks. It's just that there's not as much out there as one would hope. I'm lucky enough to be able to be choosy sometimes.

I just hope I get picked by the right team and the team that really wants me and a team where I can help and take it to the next level.

I never nursed the ambition of being launched like a conventional heroine - instead, I picked up films which I liked and here I am.