Quotes About Career

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.

I used to want to write commercials as a kid.

I don't think I'll be doing a lot more commercials.

I got my SAG card doing commercials.

I moved to California in 2011 to be a writer. A family friend told me to take acting classes so I could do commercials and actually make a little money.

I loved doing commercials when I did commercials. I made a living. I worked in front of a camera. I could do plays for free.

I had done a few commercials here and there, but I was never super lucky in commercials.

I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me a long time to commit to being a writer. Up until then, I had worked one dead-end job after another while writing on the side.

I always wanted to play Marius in 'Les Miserables,' I actually got offered the role but I had to commit to do it for six months, and as that meant I wouldn't have been able to tour with McFly I turned it down.

Before I started doing '30 Rock', I did about 25 movies. I'd always been doing stand-up every night, and then I would do, like, two to four movies a year. So I really liked doing that, and I want to get back to that, but because of the time commitment to '30 Rock', there's not much time to do that stuff.

I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years.

I'd say you have to be really committed to the field, show up for every audition and to be aware that very few make it in this field.

I've never committed to a role without a script.

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

My buddies all still make fun of me about the whole 'Leprechaun' thing, and I'm proud of that movie. I'm just as proud of that work as I am of anything else that I've done. I feel like where I was in my career at the time, I committed to the character.

I will term-limit myself probably before I would have enough seniority to get a committee chairmanship.

As a baseball player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you wonder, 'What the hell am I doing that is so hot?'

The abuse on Twitter has become so commonplace and accepted that people have literally made careers out of it.

I always encourage people in the early parts of their career to focus on writing. If you can communicate clearly, if you can articulate a thought, if you can write a great story, then you're going to be successful.

My career is a very happy accident. I never studied communications.

I feel like every actor charts a different course in their respective career in the industry. Everyone has an individual journey. So, you can't compare one to another.

'13 Reasons Why' was my first professional job out of college, so I don't have much to compare it to.

Working in films is much easier in comparison to television.

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.