Quotes About Career

I can't say that while I sat at my desk cold calling or trying to help people re-mortgage that playing for England was a real achievable goal.

I'm desperate to work in football. I could make a lot more money doing other things but this is what I want to do.

If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.

I think a lot of comedians are desperate to show their serious side, but I got that off my chest early on in my career.

I always thought just because I love football, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm desperate to manage.

I knew that was going to be the last chance to play in the Champions League final - I was desperate to win, I put a lot of pressure on myself. Finally I got hold of that cup - it was the defining moment of my career. I got really emotional and nearly fainted on the pitch.

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.

I've always wanted to play a cop, desperately.

I can say that when you model,when you get to a certain age, that's it for you. I remember there was a time where I was like, 'What am I going to do with my life?' I am a high school dropout who's only modeled. So there was desperation with that.

In fact, I never gave up doing dance shows despite films and even started my own dance school.

Despite the fact that I haven't watched a lot of serials, I always wanted to work in them.

When you take this journey of becoming an actor, there are only destinations - one, where people give you that limelight and expect the world from you, and two, they don't know who you are, and they don't care what you are doing. You have to choose where you want to go.

I grew up thinking that corporate America was my destination. Then I got there, and I was making the money I wanted to make, but I just wasn't happy.

If I'm destined to play in the MLS, I will.

I feel projects are destined for actors. Whenever I find the project destined for me I'll be at it with full force.

It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

I've never destroyed someone's career.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.

My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.

I wanted to be an actor when I was young, and I wanted to be a detective.

With this sort of career, you need determination. You've got to sacrifice a lot of things: family, friends - not that I had any - but you sacrifice everything.

Writing is hard. It takes commitment and determination and a good part talent. It's not an afterthought, an addendum - it's a career.