Quotes About Career

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

Long time ago, I was going to be a New York cop, then got involved with this girl who was into acting, then got bit by the acting bug myself.

Growing up a career cop, I was always taught, 'Stay out of politics.' I didn't have any particular allegiance to any particular party.

I've played a lot of cop parts.

As a kid, I always thought of being a cop or an army man.

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.

I've been so grateful for writing, and writers and, actually I would say that that is the cornerstone of my career, the writing. That's the truth of the work that I've done in theatre and it's definitely the case for the work that I've been lucky enough to do on screen.

Honestly, I know it sounds corny, but as an actor, I'm just so happy to have a job.

If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.

The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.

I was earning a living. I was getting into more acting, then 'Coronation Street' came along, and it was the chance of a lifetime.

Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.

I made $70,000 in the 1990s, when I was a corporate lawyer. I didn't see that salary again until I was on MSNBC.

I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.

I never had a job. I never saw myself working for corporate business.

I wanted to work in corporate restaurants.

The TV industry is a corporate world. People come, people go. They leave for growth, money, and many other reasons.

Ultimately, I am an employee of a corporation, and that's weird and does contradict some of the things I believe in. But at the same time, I have to make a living.

I would always pick pop songs and would sing them even if they were not correct for the audition - which didn't always get me a lot of jobs, but sometimes they did.

If you love your job and you love what you do, you'll just continue to go out there and work, and try to make whatever corrections you can.