Quotes About Career

I just had this drive, this determination to do something different and to take my career in a different direction.

I was very determined and excited to get back in the ring and do it on my own time and schedule and to get out there and work for all these companies around the world.

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

As a sports person, you are always aware that at some point your career is coming to an end and you have to do something else. I always knew it had to end one day, and I was very determined to make sure I wasn't going to be known as an ex-racing driver.

I always knew I wanted to work in TV or be an entertainer. Even though in 2006 I couldn't even speak English yet, I was determined to work in the WWE so I auditioned.

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

Some of our developers are starting to make $20,000 a month, which is really significant... We're getting developers who are 14 and 20 years of age making more money than their parents, starting to make a professional career of developing games on Roblox.

'Playboy Magazine' has been a devil's advocate for me. Because of the image and type-casting, it's harder to convince people that I can sing. Yet, I probably wouldn't have had the chance, had it not been for Playboy.

I choose roles where I do not have to devote a lot of time.

I got busy with films and found it difficult to devote time to theatre.

I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.

Since 80% of my career has been devoted to successful commercial cinema, I have always been told that I do not know how to act.

I've devoted my life to doing what I love: playing football.

At the top, successful blacks, like David Lammy and Diane Abbot, have merged effortlessly into what continues to be a largely white elite: they have studied at Oxbridge and gone on to Oxbridge-style careers, such as that of an MP. But they have done so at the cost of losing much of their credibility with blacks on the street and in the ghettos.

You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.

When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.

The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

If a character artiste accepts too many small roles his career dies a slow death.

I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.

I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.

I've seen a lot and experienced so many different cultures, and that's helped me a lot in my career and helped me mature as a person.

At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.