Quotes About Career

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

I don't dig ditches for a living, so I don't really hate going to work. I chose this for a reason. I would much prefer to be over-worked than under-worked.

I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie. That's actually how I get work: I enroll. That's like my good luck charm.

I've begun my career working with older heroes. The people I had been fan of, I now work with them. It's a great opportunity for me.

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.

Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.

You know what you like, you know what you want. So all you have to do is find something work related to that stuff

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

I think any actor will tell you that they always assume they'll never work again, so every job becomes important.

There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on "The Simpsons". See, there's "The Simpsons", and then there's everything else.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.