Quotes About Career

Before I was asked to be the Bachelor, I had been living in L.A. and I'd done some stuff in this entertainment world.

I do school on set and then when I come home I go back to school and kind of balance it out. One day I'll be 18 and then I won't have to do it.

I want to go back to school, get my master's, and do the accountancy thing at last. You know, get back to the dream. The real dream, that is, not the football dream.

I'm definitely going back to school to be a computer engineer.

I've thought about going back to school.

There've been times I felt like, 'I don't know if I want to do this.' That maybe I should go back to school and become a special-education teacher. But I love entertaining.

I had to decide if I wanted to race full time or be an architect. I decided I could always go back to school.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

Ever since I got married, my acting career has taken a backseat.

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.

I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

I never got in this to be a 3rd PG, or a backup. Nor did I get into this for money.

I did my first professional play at 11, and there was really nothing else I ever dreamed of doing. I felt so fortunate that I knew at the age of like, 12, like this is all I want to do for the rest of my life; that's the only play. There's no backup plan. My mom wanted me to go to school and have a backup plan. I'm like 'No, this is the only plan.'

I don't want to sacrifice and be a backup to be a Charger. That's not something I want to do or I'm going to do.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

I know many people said I couldn't go to China because it would be a step backwards in football terms, but I think anyone would at least consider such an offer.

You have to go through bad days to get to the great days you have in your career.

I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.

I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.

To me, you get into this business to make money and to make a name for yourself. And the fact that you're on the indies for 15 years is not a badge of honor.

I am a professional and when I go out there with the badge on, that's all I'm thinking about. Everything else is in the past. Tottenham is what it is for me now.

By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it.

I don't wake up in the morning thinking that I have to bag roles in all good films that are being made.