Quotes About Career

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

I'm not switching from Bollywood to the Malayalam film industry.

Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.

The benefits from stardom as Klinger outweigh any setbacks. It's a double-edged sword. What makes you famous is what interferes with getting other roles.

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

I had just come off my third consecutive failed television series. I had sworn off doing TV for a while. I was going to go to New York, sublet an apartment, and find my soul again. Before I got on the plane, my agent sent me the script for 'Psych.' I read it on the plane and realised it had a lot of potential.

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

At one point, I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

At first I moved from Sydney to Melbourne, because most of the comedy was shot in Melbourne, and then from Melbourne to Los Angeles - and you have to sacrifice stuff.

My first job in advertising was actually in the mailroom of Grey Advertising in Sydney.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

At the end of the day, inflation has been below 2% for quite a long time, and to me, symmetry means getting somewhere above 2% inflation at some point in my Fed career.

My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

I've been really fortunate that my concert career has taken off hugely. I can make a living. I enjoy performing in front of a live audience, and I can do something different every time. Sometimes I'm with a quartet, sometimes I'm solo, sometimes with a symphony, and I get to go to different cities and meet different people.

I'm someone who's experienced impostor syndrome - as I think a lot of people have with their careers, especially when they pursue what they're passionate about, because they want to be good at it. I've experienced that as a gay man; I've experienced that as a cook, as a gallery director, as a student of psychology.

Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.

I had a couple of moments struggling with imposter syndrome throughout my career as a player.

No actor has a flawless career, but in the long term, I'd like my name to be synonymous with good quality.