Quotes About Career

If you've got children it's a hell of an everyday job. From a business point of view, children and husbands slow you down.

The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.

I think a global season, moving it a bit towards summer, can only be a good thing from a playing and commercial point of view, but it would take a massive shift, and I do not know if it would happen in my career.

And then modelling, because it pays you really well and you get to travel, I was forced to get used to the idea of standing in front of a camera and having six or seven people watching me and that actually allowed me to loosen up from an acting point of view.

I'm not saying coaching has never crossed my mind. But it's worth pointing out that if I decided tomorrow that I wanted to be a manager and I started getting my badges through the FA, it would take me four and a half years to complete my training.

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.

Despite a good season and 22 points, I'll not drive any more for Toro Rosso in 2015.

Performing King Charles in Mike Bartlett's astonishing play in London and New York has been one of the high points of my career.

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

I take classes to be a mortician.

Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.

I loved acting classes, but it was very low key. Never a job job.

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

I got snubbed about eight times for the Mid-Summer Classic, and I know what type of career I had, and I know that I'm a true All-Star. The selection process is not very accurate.

I had trained in Hindustani classical singing and my mother thought I could become a playback singer, but I always wanted to become an actor.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.

When I left high school - I was younger than my classmates, just 17 - I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I thought, 'When I go to college, I'd rather study something else.'

I started working for my dad - he had his own company in carpet upholstery cleaning. I was doing whatever he said. It was hard work, it made me grow up and realize that it's not what I wanted to do.