Quotes About Career

I had done maybe three lines of dialogue, ever, before doing 'Death Proof.'

I like him as a guy, but I'm going to knock him out - Roy Jones is just a prop in a fairytale ending to a great career for me.

Confidence is a crucial building block in a successful career, and embracing it fully will take you places you never thought possible. With proper guidance and hard work, anyone can become more confident. Once you pass a certain point, you'll feel it from the inside.

I never could get a proper job.

As soon as I got my proper first job, I never did acting again. I think the last thing I did was a Mike Figures film, and then I got a series with the BBC. I'm glad of the experience, because I think it's very, very good to understand what actors go through.

If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.

My dad used to cut out newspaper ads and post them to me in the hope I'd get a proper job.

I got my first football when I was two and played my first proper game before I was five. So nothing else was ever an option!

I started comedy as a hobby, really, and it still doesn't seem like a proper job.

It's hard work if you want a proper and a lasting career.

Most of my friends in London are musicians, but the ones in Scotland have proper jobs.

I think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.

When people asked me, 'What are you going to do?' I'd say, 'I'm going to be an actor,' without really thinking about it. And I started acting without really thinking about it. I only thought about it properly a bit later.

If you manage things properly - and, listen, I'm a business guy. I've got to prioritize spending in all my business career to prevent my business from going bankrupt. The federal government has got to start doing that eventually as well.

If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.

One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.

If I'd done 'Top Gear,' I would have had to have left my job, and I've got the best job in the world. To do 'Top Gear' and do it properly would mean leaving work, and I can't. I don't want to leave work.

I tend to renovate properties when I'm not working.

I already have a second career, running a property investment business with a friend.

Managing your own property can be a full-time job.

More people are working in jobs that are interactive technology based or find a basis in intellectual property.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

That 'Rollercoaster' album cover was very prophetic in its own way. My career has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows.

One minute I was with Tottenham, the next came a proposal from China. I took a step back to think about it and decided it was the right time to move.