Quotes About Career

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian.

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

I can't imagine ever doing anything else with my life. It's definitely a challenge but when you accomplish something it feels great!

My mom was proud but very hands off. She didn't really know enough about the model industry, and she didn't have the time to stop her life to go chaperone me. I think she trusted me.

The life of a working model in L.A. kind of sucks.

I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

You have to find ways of integrating what you like into your business life. And it's difficult at times, but I think over time with experience, you learn how to do it.

If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.

I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

TV and film has defined my entire life.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.