Quotes About Career

Having it all means different things to different people. I think it's an individual choice. Nothing is perfect. Everyone makes sacrifices. For me, it's worked out well. I have children. I have a very interesting career. But it's not for everybody.

I've got a family, and I get to enjoy my family, and I get to do different things, trying the movie thing a little bit.

As a kid, I wanted to be an actress, but ambition and reality are two different things.

We've always been really great brothers, and now we're two actors who do very similar things but also very different things.

Hard work most often leads to success, but it's not every day, and it's not every week. It will pay off at different times over the course of your career.

I am looking at acting in a different way now. I always looked at it as equity to build the other things I was doing; now, I consider it a career.

I have a respect for Young Jeezy. But the reason things didn't work out for me and Young Jeezy was because our approach to the industry... My approach to the industry was a tad bit different than his. I wanted to approach my career a different way; he wanted to go a different way.

Throughout their career, the likes of Xavi and Andres Iniesta have all been taught to a play a certain way. English players have been taught a different way, just like Brazil have been taught a different way.

If you're just focused on work, my view is that you'll never get enough back from any organization, no matter how fantastic the role is, and you have to have a full life so that you really get enriched in a lot of different ways, and that can be family and kids. It can be, for others, sports.

Management is something I'd like to do in the future, so I look at the different ways of training, the routines.

I was always asking people about their work. How do you do a job like that? Do you love it? What does it pay? I was lucky to have access to people who could answer my questions. Otherwise, my life could have turned out very differently.

I had a very difficult time deciding to go on my mission. It was hard to set aside my basketball career.

I have no difficulty with career duality!

I want to work in films but without compromising on my dignity.

I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I'd never made the choice to go into acting.

There are some moments in your life and in your career when you meet a movie and the director that suddenly just turns you to another dimension.

Each of my roles affects different dimensions of my life.

By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.

If my career doesn't work out as a violinist, I want to become an archaeologist. I've read about paleontology, too - that's dinosaur bones - but I thought it would be more interesting to do archaeology.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

I don't direct movies for a living.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.