Quotes About Career

When you book a network show as an actor, it's like, 'Oh my gosh, I booked a network show,' and then it gets picked up.

Look at Willis McGahee. Perfect example. Totally shredded knee. Comes back and gets picked in the first round. It's pretty hard to have a career-ender, unless I have a neck thing. But either way, I know I'm insured.

I went off and did 'Space,' which turned out very well, and when the series was picked up, my options were to stay with 'Space' as a producer/director or go to 'The X-Files' as a producer/director.

The money that these baseball players are getting, I'm like, 'Man I picked the wrong sport.' But I'm having a great career. I wouldn't change it for the world.

Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.

I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.

There are lots of procedural shows that I love, but I never really wanted to be a doctor on 'E.R.' - which I'm just picking as an example - or be on a crime procedural.

I've led a career of having to take work to see my family, over picking and choosing, instead of 'I need food on the table and I don't know how I'm going to pay the mortgage.'

I'm a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.

In the periods of my career when I stopped passing the ball forward or when I stopped looking for the risky pass that might open up a defence, the consequences were the same. The manager stopped picking me. I got back into the team when I went back to doing it the way he wanted.

Because I've been around the MMA block a little bit, I'm at a point now where I just want bodies to beat up. I'm past the point in my career where I'm picking and choosing.

Maybe I should be a literary agent. I'm good at picking up on books that become successful before it happens. I could pick up a lot more money than making films.

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

You look at my career, everywhere I went - Miami, Green Bay, Cleveland, Philly - they were always bringing in draft picks and former first-rounders and guys with free-agent deals to take my job.

I've been a lot of places and worked with a lot of different guys. High draft picks. Low draft picks.

When I set picks and rolled to the basket early in my career, either I'd dunk or it'd be an offensive foul where I run the guy over.

I feel like I've been picky through the years and would do one movie a year or one movie every two years, and I want to work a lot more. So if I can find something that just happens right away as a director, I'll do it if I really love it, but otherwise, I want to keep working as an actor and getting better.

I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.

I would definitely like to work in India. It is just that I am quite picky when it comes to roles.

Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.

Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.