Quotes About Career

My job gives me the attention I'd otherwise crave.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

Personally, I have nothing to fall back on, and that creates a weird ambition that you have to be good at acting because you can't be good at anything else. I wish I had gone for my degree - that acting wasn't this be-all-and-end-all.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

I'm a creative consultant, whatever that means.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.

I've learned a lot about being in control of your career - and that being positive and believing in yourself goes a very long way. And creatively, the music needs to sound like it's come from you, not someone else who's choosing the songs for you.

I never want to have to take certain roles, because I want to maintain a certain level of artistic credibility. But sometimes you're forced to do things for the money.

I'm tryin' to get some acting credibility, get some other work.

I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

I don't think longevity gets enough credit when you're talking about a player.

I wanted a Broadway credit, but 'Crazy Ex' came along, and it blessed me.

I don't have like 30 IMDb credits. I have one.

My dream is to play Test cricket.

I thought my dream job was to play cricket.

I can't leave cricket. It is my passion.

I have no real desire to play Test cricket, and the reason I lost this desire was because I was not selected consistently for Test matches.

I have never run after the captaincy in my entire career. It is something for the cricket board to decide.

When I came back into the side in 2009 I had to play more aggressively, and did. But I should never have played 127 times for England in one day cricket.

I've played cricket seriously since I was eight years old, when I first played for the Essex under-11s. I can't just turn it off.

You can't now do county and international cricket and have a life.

At 17, I realized that it's going to be a tough decision to make, but I had the clarity of thought to walk out of cricket and try my luck in acting.