Quotes About Career

There were a lot of R&B groups that were my heroes, but the funny thing about my career and the way it went and where it went, at first I didn't really want to do pop music. I was a little bit more into jazz and R&B.

Singing pop music was not something I planned, but I managed to do it.

I don't want to give up pop music. It's how I earn my living. I've got a family to take care of.

I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.

Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!

I have to do popcorn for movies. I can do more important things for television. You're going down when you're making a movie, not going up.

So if you see me popping up on 'Cats Does Countdown,' you know Kath needs a bit of money.

My pops played for the Packers for five years.

As a kid, my pops did music, too. He was in a group called Lakeside back in the day.

I want to do amazing roles fit for my age in 30 years. I'm sure I'll be less popular and have less offers then, but I think I'll be able to do act well for my age at the time.

It is kind of nice for when people appreciate what you have done, but I would not base my career on awards because they are mostly popular awards and not talent-oriented awards.

As part of modeling, I have acted in the advertisement films of popular brands. Then I got some offers from films.

The thing with the film industry is if you become popular in one kind of role, you keep getting cast in the same thing.

You really need to decide, if you're an actor in Hollywood, whether you want to be faithful to the Lord or you want to be popular, because chances are you're not going to be both.

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

I am happy judging shows and making films. It is a good thing to do a film and then take up a show, considering it also keeps your popularity alive.

My career choices aren't based on the popularity of my character; I have never intended to capitalise on my fan base.

Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.

Not being active, your name doesn't go out there as much, and you lose the popularity thing. Also, you're not able to make a living. This is what we do to make a living: we go out there and fight. Not being able to fight for a year and a half and not able to bring in money, it definitely sets you back.

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

Differences' is the biggest song in my career. It beat 'Pony,' it beat 'So Anxious' and 'None of Ur Friends Business' as far as popularity and spins.

I mean, it gave me so much popularity, and because of TV, I got my first breakthrough. But I just enjoy doing films more.

Fact is, I won popularity with my first film itself. Since I got acclaim very early in my career, people weren't that critical of me.

At the time when I was at the peak of my career in Bollywood, we never had social media to give us a direct sense of our popularity, the excitement among fans and their appreciation.