Quotes About Career

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

Now that the sport has gone mainstream, there's a lot of money in fighting. It's always what I've loved to do.

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.

It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse.

I'm extremely lucky to be doing what I'm doing right now and I work very hard at maintaining this career and living this dream that I'm living, but there's also a price to pay. I mean, we give a lot of ourselves and every day.

As my athletic career was coming to an end in 2007, I asked myself, do I want to work for somebody, or go out and make a difference?

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

It took me 15 years of being in the industry to know that you need makeup and styling when you go out, that you need to have PR.

If I wasn't doing music, I would be a makeup artist.

A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

My first summer at a repertory theater, I was making $20 a week. I was making a living, as far as I was concerned, and I was doing theater. And next season, I made $40 a week. But I don't think anyone in my family would have considered that making a living.

It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.

I do feel incredibly lucky to be making a living at things I love doing.

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

I didn't associate playing tennis with making a living until I was maybe 18 or 19.

Right now, at the age of 22, I'm making a living off of this and I'm building, not only just my brand, but I'm also building myself bell-to-bell. I'm building myself when that red light's on and I want to keep doing it.

We weren't making money in the Yardbirds.

When you start out in the industry and things are tough, and you're not really making money, you question yourself: should I give up?

Why would you be a sell-out for making money out of what you can do?

I prefer movies because the money is better and certainly because you really know where you stand when you are making movies, and I have made a lot of them: 50-something - I don't know.

I wish I had more control over my career, but making movies is something you do with lots of people.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.