Quotes About Career

I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.

I've worked with a lot of female directors over the course of my career: Martha Coolidge, Catherine Hardwicke, Jodie Foster.

I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.

I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.

You don't compare a guy with 30 or 40 fights with a guy who had 200 fights and fought over 25 years.

That's one of the reasons I retired. To stick around, the way I was fighting, I would have to start playing it safe. I went out on my shield. That's the way I liked it. I fought that way my whole career. I don't want to bore people my last three or four fights.

I never fought for money. I had a good career and legacy as featherweight champion.

I think I fought my first fight in Zuffa in 2010.

I get wanting to fight in the UFC. I got my start there. I fought 20 times there.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

I want the type of career where I can come back to theater. Theater is my home. Theater, to me, is like ballet for dancers. It's my foundation.

I was very happy in Wipro; happier in Mindtree because I founded and took it public.

I think, for me coming into the game, the way that I came into the sport and the business being ran the way that it was ran for me, I was always told who I would fight, and there was never really ever a fountain of guys to pick from.

My first film, 'Ishaqzaade,' did well, and I got four damn good films because of it.

I don't think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.

When I became a choreographer, I was not assisting any choreographer. I was assisting the director Mansoor Ali Khan for 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar.' I was the fourth assistant director.

I had been told I might be drafted in the fourth round. 'Great,' I said at the time.

I got to work with Juliette Lewis in my fourth real movie, which was such a cool full-circle moment. Her character in 'Gilbert Grape' is why I wanted to become an actress.

After two years with 'Donna,' they offered me a new contract, but I said no. I didn't want to be the fourth man through the door any more.

We decided around fourth or fifth grade that we were going to go to film school.

Make-up is such a huge fragment of my career and image.

The amazing thing about Bob Marley is that there is no moving footage of him at all for the first ten or eleven years of his career. From 1962 to 1973, there's nothing, not a single frame.