Quotes About Career

It's really hard as a Canadian actor to make a footprint in the States, because of the visa stuff.

Any way that I can use my career or my platform to push along transgender visibility in the mainstream and society serves me on a personal level in that it will make day-to-day existence when I'm not doing this that much easier.

I had convinced my father to let me pursue this career, and I passionately wanted it. And here was this conflict in me, and I hadn't shared it with my father. And it was excruciating to always have your guard up. Particularly because, being an actor, you're public and visible. I could be seen coming out of a gay bar. Who could have seen me?

It started at 49 with 'Tango in Halifax' and then 'Happy Valley.' I can't complain at a time when most actors are disappearing. I seem to have become very visible.

Hindi cinema needs to make working women and women of substance more visible.

In bringing my baby to work, I am happy to be a visible reminder of how messy and difficult it is to be a working parent.

My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.

It's a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career and my life. My vision is nothing that hasn't been gleaned or understood from watching and working with so many people I admire before me.

I always knew what I wanted, and I always had a very clear vision for myself and my career as an artist.

APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons together.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

I'm not much of a visionary guy when it comes to figuring out how to go about my career.

Before having a baby, I'd relished the freedom of a non-office job. But now I longed to get dressed every day and be in the company of verbal grownups. It was during this perfect storm of isolation and plummeting estrogen that I started to wonder if I'd made a mistake by leaving medical school.

I once told Wendell that I'm a terrible decision maker, that often what I think I want doesn't turn out the way I'd imagined. But there were two notable exceptions, and both proved to be the best decisions of my life. In each case, I was nearly forty. One was my decision to have a baby. The other was my decision to become a therapist.

No way was he going off to D.C. leaving Taylor in Texas to finish up her odd double major in theatre and human biology without at least getting engaged.

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. —CHARLIE GEHRINGER

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

After recently acquiring a position as a seamstress at Damsels in Dis Dress,

What I really resent is that my graduates are not more different from his. For all my emphasis on the humanities and his on God, we both turn out stockbrokers!

Won't teach any more if I can help it; don't like it; and if I can get writing enough can do much better.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?' 'You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.' 'Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town.

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

It was a post her former colleagues no doubt viewed as a significant step down. But Reine Marie wasn't interested in steps. She'd arrived at where she wanted to be. No more steps." Chapter 1 · Page 5 · Location 101