Quotes About Career

People ask me what I would have done if it wasn't for basketball. I can never give a good story because I honestly don't know. I had no other options.

If you want to have high-powered career women who have families, you need to provide options for them in terms of childcare.

No, nothing much has changed in me as an actor. Since the day I started out, I always wanted to be part of good stories. The only thing that has changed is now I have options of good stories to choose from.

I have a lot of interests. I daydreamed about various career options growing up; the one I'm in is the first one that worked out, and I love it, so I feel very lucky.

There weren't many options that came my way after Tum Bin.' Yet, people started expecting too much from me after that film.

I want to do more in the beauty industry and maybe try out some other career options, maybe some acting in the future.

I love TV and film and will happily work there if it's good. But I want the ability to choose between things, to have options.

I'm not ecstatic about Leander doing films. But, I respect his decision to explore his options, although I feel that he's really doing well in the field of sports!

For an actor like me, there are very few options to choose from.

We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.

Honestly, six months before getting 'Orange Is the New Black,' I remember telling my manager I was done.

I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.

I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

I was a full-time mom for seven years. You go back on tour, you're back in hotels, you're ordering room service, and you're getting an itinerary slipped under your door every,day. You're kind of thinking, 'Did I go home for seven years, or was that just a dream?'

I worked a lot of non-acting jobs for a really long time. They ranged from auto mechanic to landscaper to manual labor to working in a factory that made airplane parts. I even tried to go to school as a paramedic and ended up being an orderly in a hospital.

I did a lot of 'NYPD Blues' and 'Law & Orders' and a couple of other ones that were shot in New York earlier in my career.

The beginning of a career is hard for many players, often because of the ordinary day-to-day problems that football and life bring.

I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.

People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.

I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

When I first became a mother, I didn't want my son to have any extra exposure to what I did. I had this theory that if he wanted to do what I do for a living, it should be organic and come from him, not from the fact that this was just what he saw all the time.

I began working in Gujarati movies and I got noticed by many in Bollywood. It has been organic growth.