Quotes About Career

The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary's. That was the first time I had come to the Oakland area. So, the last game I played in college and the first game of my NBA career were out here in the Bay Area. It's pretty cool.

I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.

When I got out of college, I booked a movie called 'Go for It!' with Lionsgate, came out here, and I've been acting ever since - or trying, constantly trying.

For a while, I couldn't get arrested in television because everybody thought of me as that guy on 'Trapper John.' So I thought, 'Great, I'll come out here to New York and do some theater, and when they get tired of me, I'll do something else.'

My plan is to stay in New York for as long as I can and do some theater out here and just keep working creatively.

Basically, I played basketball for a small college out here in California and when I was done playing college, I settled down and got a job.

Ive been an opening act for pretty much as long as Ive been out here doing this, so to be able to go out and be a headliner is an adjustment for me.

This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.

I didn't know basketball was going to be the outcome for me after school.

Maybe I'm outdated in thinking this, but because I'm a young black woman and don't see very many being the lead in a film, I have this fear: 'Will I be working?'

Any time there was a break from university I'd be doing some kind of outdoor job.

I have shot back-to-back shows with outdoor schedules, and so missed many moments of my babies.

It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.

I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

Moving to L.A. and making albums was an exciting outlet, but I always thought I'd be slumming it job to job in N.Y.C. with hopes of being on Broadway!

I truly enjoyed my time with Manson and have the greatest respect for the incredible fans. I am grateful to have contributed over two dozen songs to his projects. It was a great creative outlet for me at that point in my career.

When I had my daughter, I'd been chugging along in my career and had great mentors and success, but it was the first time it hit me that I really loved working and having that professional outlet.

There was no one moment when I decided I would spend my life acting. I am not certain that I will. Acting has never been a consistent passion. I have done it since I was young - so I have been acting for 30 years - but intermittently. I always had other jobs, joys, and creative outlets.

I have been offered so many parts in movies and I just think it's so outrageous as I've never really done acting or things like that.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.

I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.