Quotes About Career

I built my career in the league playing defense and making shots, and also making plays when I needed to.

As an actor, I obviously want to do lead roles but over a period of time, one gets prepared to carry a movie on your own shoulder.

If they're trying to get high school kids to go to the D-League, I will be shouting from mountaintops saying, 'What is this going to do to a generation of kids who say, 'All right, I'm going to do this,' you get one or two years to make it, and now you're out without any opportunities. Who's taking care of those kids now?'

When push comes to shove, my children always come first, and I am lucky that I work in an environment that respects that.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

In show business, generally you don't retire. If you love it, that is, you're in it forever anyway.

I grew up thinking of show business as a business.

I don't know how people get into show business if their family's not in it.

I had no ambition to go into show business when I was growing up. I started out as an advertising copywriter and evolved into it. Once you get into it, however, it's very difficult to get out. It gets into your blood. You don't want to do anything else. You want that excitement.

All my kids grew up around showbiz so they know it's just a job.

Why cannot a woman be shown working out of choice, the way men do? Can't a woman work because she enjoys it and is capable of doing it? Why should they be shown leaving home for employment as a sacrifice for the family?

I've always shied away from 'Where are they now?' shows, because I've been lucky enough to keep working, and people know where I am.

The luxury that I have is I'm not career-minded, I just live from one film to the next. For a time, I was making documentaries, and all my documentaries were winning awards and stuff, and then I lost interest in documentaries.

I've been in the business for so long that I don't sit home and look at my awards.

I wasn't thinking about awards or becoming rich. I just wanted to be able to make my living by working as an actor.

My mom had me when she was 25, and I'm 28 now, and just to even imagine myself three years ago starting to have children and be married and have my career, it's pretty trippy, and I'm so proud and kind of in awe of her.

'Smallville' was a really awesome opportunity.

I would do background and extra stuff, I would do student films, I just found every opportunity I could to be on set, and after awhile I accumulated enough work to get an agent.

Nightwish is my band, and so is Revamp. They both get my 100 percent, which is why I also cannot do them both at the same time. They're both my babies.

I've sort of made up my mind that I have to do my career and I have to be a mother. These are my two responsibilities; of course the baby comes first.

I'd love my degree from university, because I'm one subject away from having a Bachelor of Arts, which I know I can't use, but it annoys me.