Quotes About Career

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!

I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.

I would like to think that if I stop playing in three, four, five years time, whatever it may be, that I would still be involved in football and still have that as my profession. It is my passion and what I know.

This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it's going to go, but you still want to get out there and work.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

My profession has helped me to grow up.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.

Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.

It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out.

You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I'm not sure if I've got that cold-eyed egomania that perhaps is needed to get to the top. So as long as I can keep paying the mortgage and keep myself interested, I'll be happy.

I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people. One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.

You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself.

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

I'm a boring guy who's got a great job in a profession that still gives me a great deal of pleasure after 35 years.

A profession which is seen as intellectually glamorous is often the most misunderstood when it comes to the commerce involved.

I feel very, very lucky to have been involved with a project that's gone on as long as 'The Closer' has. You really don't get to do that in this profession.

I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.