Quotes About Career

I made a good living in the UFC. This isn't a negative thing. I'll always love the UFC. I still do 'UFC Now,' and I love breaking down the fights, and I never miss anything, and if they need anything, they know who to call.

I don't want to be one of those guys who fights until they're 38, 40 years old. I don't want to put my wife through that, and I don't want to put my kids through that.

As soon as I found MMA, I knew that this is what I wanted to do, and it gave me focus because I was good at it anyway, and it gave me a goal to reach. I kept winning my fights, and it's given me a goal and a career opportunity.

I don't watch scripted television, and I finally figured out why. It's my line of work, you know? It's what I do.

So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?

I kind of figured if I couldn't get a job as a dwarf, looking as I do, I should just give up acting.

I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

I saw my first UFC fight when I was 15 and figured, 'This is what I want to do when I grow up.'

I figured out that I was interested in acting while at NYU.

I figured I'd coach two or three years at the most and go back and be an attorney.

I always saw myself as a sideman. I figured I'd end up a drummer.

Once I realized music was working, I was getting money off of shows and I figured that I could find success through music.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.

I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.

I think everyone goes through it in university, figuring out whether or not they're doing the right course. I guess I'm the same, but in music.

I am ambitious, and I'm excited for my career to grow, and I do want to represent the Asian community and the Filipino community.

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.

If you're interested in the job and in the kind of work that's done, you have to have an interest in who's going to fill your shoes.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

I've always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me.

I made my first foray into acting with a Bengali film 'Gane Bhuban Bhariye Debo.'