Quotes About Career

I was going through this identity crisis of being like, 'I don't think I want to be a doctor anymore.' And, 'oh my god, have I made a huge mistake? What do I do?'

There was a day when doing TV was like, oh my God, the end of your career. Now it's just like, we all want to do TV; we all want to do great TV.

I think I jumped the gun a bit on head coaching. I got named a head coach at 23, and I really didn't know what I was doing. I remember getting that job and going, 'Oh my God, they gave me the job.'

I won't sign a film thinking, 'Oh my God! I don't have a film so I've got to sign one real quickly.'

Every time my sister and I went on the set with my mother, everyone would be like, 'Oh my god, she's going to become a star.' So in my head, I always thought I was going to be an actress, but not so soon.

I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

There's the cool factor, right? You see your face on a sign or your name on something, like, 'Ahh! Here I am!' And then there's a huge responsibility and the scary part of it, which is like, 'Now what happens?' And then you realize, 'Oh, yeah, this is my job.'

It is not something I ever envisaged doing when I set out - thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'd love to be a third-choice keeper' - but your situation changes as your career goes on.

I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.

I was a 52-year-old coach. But people don't realize I had 25 years as a head coach. Most coaches my age only had a few years as head coach. I had six years at Miami of Ohio, eight years at Northwestern, 11 at Notre Dame.

I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.

I grew up outside Cleveland, Ohio, and I went to college at Boston University. I majored in film. Then I came out to Los Angeles.

I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.

What people want to know is, OK, what's after modeling? It's not just OK anymore to model until you're 25 and then stop and be a housewife.

When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

I really need to work. People think that I'm no longer interested in acting and only interested in working with the animals. Obviously I have given that impression, but it is not how I feel. I think I'm a good actor. I think I look OK. I don't understand why I'm not working all the time.

I love acting. It's a lot of fun work, interesting work, and you get to work with some very interesting people. But I seemed to be OK walking away from it for a little while and then coming back to it.

I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

It's OK to stay at a job that you don't enjoy, because you're scared.

As long as I get to do the kind of work I want to do, I am okay with being a Z-lister.

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

I never said I want to be the football guy. But when that opportunity started to become real, I said, 'Okay, let's see where this goes.'