Quotes About Career

Indiana wanted to go in a different direction, wanted to go younger, and the Lakers wanted me, so I said, who wouldn't want to be in L.A? That was a no-brainer.

I don't know why people feel the need to do this to me, but my friend asked my dad, 'Aren't your proud of Jimmy now that he's a successful actor?' And my dad was like, 'No, not really. I wish he was a scientist.' I guess scientist is more noble in the Asian culture.

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.

As a model, I travel non-stop.

Since the moment I joined with Nightwish, I have been working non-stop.

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

None of those jobs were high-profile, but once I was on ET, people then began to associate me with that show. So, that is the thing that many people know me for. When in effect, that was the end of my television career.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

In the end, life is wonderful but nonetheless a series of trade offs, especially between business/professional endeavours and family/community.

In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.

I have worked for the BBC for a lot of my career and I kind of always did it for the love. People always go, 'Oooh, well that's nonsense,' but it isn't, I love my job, I love what I do.

I liked singing, but I didn't like all the politics and nonsense that went with it.

I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.

I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.

I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.

I thought: 'I'm going to go to college. I'm going to have a normal 9-to-5 job.'

One of my earliest memories is being backstage at 'Bran Nue Dae' in Darwin when I was about eight. It's such a fun, happy show and a real celebration of being Aboriginal... it felt really great and achievable as a career. It all felt normal.

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised.