Quotes About Career

The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn't plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

My goal is to forever do stand up.

I never wanted to end up in entertainment; that wasn't the goal.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas

The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.

Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

I was a bank teller. That was a great job. I was bringing home $450,000 a week.

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'

If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error.

So I was in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang up, and he said 'You've been promoted.' And I swerved. And then he rang up a second time and said You've been promoted again.' And I swerved again. He rang up a third time and said 'You're managing director.' And I went into a tree. And a policeman came up and said 'What happened to you?' And I said 'I careered off the road.'

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood -- Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.