Quotes About Career

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

Before I had children, I was - everything about my life was devoted to "Saturday Night Live."

I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.

I just want to be really careful with decisions I make. When you make a decision about your career, it changes your life in a really big way.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

My parents' biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn't fathom me acting for the rest of my life.

I've feel like I've been doing TV shows most of my life.

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

My path was to be an actor and it's been very good to me in life. It's broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.