Quotes About Career

It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind. Maybe it crossed my mind that it would be cool to have a hit record and a career, but that was so out of reach that I don't think I thought about it that much.

To be frank, my career as an actor was not even taking care of my lifestyle. Doing two odd films a year wasn't making me financially secure.

I think youve got to work out what makes you happy. With me, its that I do lots of different things. So Ive got this rather odd career whereby Im not really a stand-up and Im not really an actor and Im not really a writer. But I do them all.

Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.

I didn't really do any acting until I was about 28. I just did odd jobs.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

I make more money in the off-season than I do playing football.

Be it commercial or offbeat, I want to establish myself as an actress.

To this day, I still get people calling me Aunt Becky, and I'm not offended by that at all. 'Full House' has afforded me wonderful opportunities in my career.

I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.

I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.

It's true I was interested in going to Everton, but I didn't accept the offer.

Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.

I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.

Let me clear it once and for all: I was never offered 'Befikre.' But had I been offered, I wouldn't have done it.

I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice.

'Sanam Teri Kasam' wasn't the first Bollywood project offered to me. I was offered other projects with more established actors, but I always knew that I could easily be seen as just eye-candy.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

Usually, the roles that you get offered that are the mom roles are very much the mom role.