Quotes About Career

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

I love acting. I take it day by day. I would really love to produce my own stuff and other stuff.

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.

I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

I produced some very good work at 'New York' magazine.

'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced.

I've been in, like, kids' clubs... I've been in the Boom Boom Room in New York, and the kids are going, 'Oh my God, you produced 'Arrested Development?'' They aren't talking about 'A Beautiful Mind' or '24.' It's like the only thing in my whole career was 'Arrested Development,' literally.

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

When you tell your kids they can be anything, you've got to be careful. I told my kids that, and I ended up with a music producer and an interior designer. But they're doing it.

I didn't understand that I couldn't just leave and become sort of a semi-regular. I had to be sat down by the line producer, Carol Himes, in my dressing room and told, 'I hear you're thinking about going to college.'

One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

My mum's father was a producer and her mother was an actress, so my mum was fully behind me going into acting.

I never really saw myself as a producer but there were times when I thought after my in-ring career perhaps I could go into being a commentator or coming back as a general manager.

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.