Quotes About Career

I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly.

I would never say yes to a fight that would take me out of the title picture if I'm in it. If I did it, I'd want to be compensated. That's the important thing. If you ask me to do something like that, I need to be compensated correctly.

I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths.

Ive actually developed a well of confidence. But would I apply for the 'Financial Times' economics correspondent? No, I would feel I wasnt up there.

I've been working in cosmology since 1964.

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!

I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'

For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

There's a difference between a Hollywood wife and a Hollywood woman. I don't count. I worked.

I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to myself, 'I want to do that.'

If you have 50 years in the business, you can probably count on only five good movies.

I've been in so many series, or almost-series, that I can't even count them all.

I've done more than 65 films. I don't count them anymore. The first 10 you count and then you stop.

Private equity does pay very well, and my counterparts, guys that I grew up with who are still working at a number of firms, all make a lot of money.

I always loved math in high school and I thought that I would be an accountant. But I also thought I would be better at counting money in the NFL.

I expect to make a career out of country music.

If I wasn't singing country music for a living, I was actually going to school to be a doctor.

I didn't start out to be a country singer. It just happened that way.

I have always wanted to be a country singer.

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.

At the end, if you are good in your film and you have more films coming your way and good characters to play, nothing else counts.

You keep getting calls, but then doing the right project and being sure of what you want to do is what counts.