Quotes About Career

I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.

I watched how happy broadcasting made him. And if you're close with your parent and you see they're happy doing something, it's only natural you want to follow in their footsteps.

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become an animator cartoonist at that point. Do I work at Disneyworld or something and do animated cells or something?

While I was at NYU, I did a play at The Public called 'The Forbidden City,' where I went in as an understudy and got my Equity card.

Like every Aussie actor, I'd rather be working here; it's just we've all been forced to go to the States. Business-wise, as an actor, it's more lucrative, and there's also a lot more of it there.

I don't think forcing an athlete to stay in school does anything for the athlete.

I do not forecast playing until 38 or 39.

I love playing guitar. I grew up with my dad playing. But acting is definitely the forefront, I guess I'd say, in terms of career and something that I really enjoy and feel lucky to be able to do.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language.

I'm always going to be an actor first and foremost, but I certainly want to have a voice in the kind of work that I'm doing.

The music has always been the first and foremost element in our career.

I define myself first and foremost as I've had a fairly successful career.

I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER.

Football is my passion, and who knows where I will play in the future - you cannot foresee that.

My path has been, I think, a path a lot of women can foresee themselves taking.

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

I don't see myself being an actress forever.

I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.

You never know what's going to happen and I know that fighting is not forever. So post-fighting I definitely want to have a career, and I think a master's degree will help much more than a bachelor's degree.

I was getting a lot of pressure to go to the States, but I never really wanted to. I saw Cronenberg forge his own path, and that made me believe that I could do that, too.

I would do a film, make the money, then take off for six months to Europe, India or Russia. My agent told me that I had to stay in town if I ever wanted to build a career, because everyone forgets about you.

I am neither a lawyer nor a tax expert, in fact my formal education ended when I finished high school.