Quotes About Career

I was a professional rehab/workout guy for four years. I wasn't even a basketball player - just a guy who got paid to exercise.

I didn't grow up playing football. I wanted to be a basketball player.

I try to envision what life is after basketball, but I just see myself working out and just being a basketball player still.

Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.

This game's a lot easier early on in your career because people haven't seen you play. Things got a lot harder when people saw what I did with the ball and began to think about how to bat against me.

Your ability will get you the job, but you also need to have age on your side. So if you started your career at 21, you have an advantage over others in your batch who started at, say, 24.

I have three lines in 'The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3' about having to go to the bathroom, and it's the most money I ever made.

If I didn't do 'Batman,' 'Birdman' wouldn't have happened.

My bats were brilliant. The shape of them changed, and towards the end of my career, they got a little bit bigger.

I had eight years of a career before I even saw any fame outside of the Bay. I was famous in the Bay for eight years before that.

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.

For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

I will always be grateful to Arsenal for bringing me into the best league in the world, but Swansea have given me what I always wanted, and as No. 1, I want to pay them back.

If I ask you, 'What do you want out of life?' and you say something like, 'I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,' it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that.

I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

The way I see it is if I can't be happy doing this job, which is my dream job, then what's going to make me happy in life?

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

I want to be happy going to work. I want to do a show I'm proud of.

I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.

I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'

I'd love to do something hard-hitting, like a lawyer or a policewoman, something like that. That would be nice.

I learned early in my career that I had to be prepared for life after football because you never knew when it would end.

There are a lot of guys who football is all they have. And I love football to death, it got me here, it's what I've been doing since I was nine years old, but football ends at a point in time and you've got to be prepared for life after football.

If you want to be real about it, the fact that any actor books a job is a one-in-a-million shot. I've been so fortunate to have worked on even a few films, so, no, I don't wake up feeling bad.