Quotes About Career

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

At the age of 10 I started writing to the BBC about getting into broadcasting. It went on for years. I was 17 when they finally gave in and offered me a job as a bookings clerk in sport and outside broadcast.

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

It may sound very cliched but seriously, since childhood I always wanted to be an actress.

It will sound very cliched but when I was kid I always wanted to be singer and never an actor.

Something clicked, and I was like, 'I gotta be prepared. This could end at any time.' That was my second year in the league. From that point on I started doing broadcasting and things like that in an attempt to find my passion - something I could do after football.

I wanted to play Dina. I was my managers most annoying client as I kept saying that I needed to get this part.

I never expected to make a living from climbing, but it got to the point where I either had to get a job or start trying to make some real money from it. I didn't want to be 45 and a dirtbag.

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.

The thought of me not having to clock in for a job anymore is something that I can't really put into words, aside from 'amazing' and 'awesome.'

I constantly tour every year, around the clock. That's how I make my living, and I do very well. Because I have classic songs.

You realize as an athlete that there is a bit of a clock, and you don't want to look back on a career and say, 'I wish I had done this a bit differently.'

I don't work on television round the clock.

I have always looked for growth, and in TV, you are as good as your last show. So I only care about my personal space, my family, and close friends.

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.

My sister was much closer to Mom. Mom accompanied my sister to all her shootings. I made my way on my own.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

It's what I've always wanted to do and each part you play gets you closer and closer to the roles that you dreamed of playing.

I'm down to fight anybody that's going to move me up and help my career and get me closer to that title shot.

I want to have the most successful career I can. But the people closest to you are the most important.

I didn't want to stay in the closet to get work. I wanted to be out whether it affected my career or not.

Yes, I was born in London because my dad was closing out the West End version of Miss Saigon' there.