Quotes About Career

I am a qualified civil engineer but academics never attracted me as I was a sleepoholic when I was in college.

If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?

I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

Modeling wasn't necessarily what I was into. It's something that you're genetically qualified to do.

I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine not writing, because I've done it since I was five or six. Maybe I'd work in academia. That's always what the plan was.

By putting this music out, I think I genuinely eliminated 80 percent of the previous jobs I was qualified for.

Sometimes I go home, put the game on, and think, 'How can I miss that?' It affects you; it also affects you to know your career also depends on the opinion of journalists, fans, directors, and sometimes they're not really qualified to judge.

It wasn't easy at all for a qualified engineer to take the decision of giving it up, leave Punjab and try to make a name in films. But I really wanted to be an actor, hence I took the decision.

Being qualified means I can spend a bit more time at home.

If you are a player and you don't really retire by yourself there should still be an opportunity to qualify for the national team.

I do feel I have all the qualities of a film star but then why didn't I make it that big? I blame it on my destiny. I was not there at the right place at the right time.

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

I have no qualms approaching directors who I know will help me grow as an actor.

I have been doing comedy for the last 15 years but I don't have any qualms admitting that I have learnt a lot from Kapil Sharma. I respect his talent and have not seen a performer like him in my career.

Obviously I will try to do 4 films a year, but more than quantity, quality is what matters to me.

After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.'

There have been times when I played more than others, but I've been a road comic for a quarter of a century, so I've always played golf on the road because you have a lot of time to kill.

The only reason I was allowed to have a career for a quarter century as an insult comic is because it's all in jest and all for fun.

I don't think the day that I was drafted that I expected to be the starting quarterback for the Rams as a seventh-round pick.

At the end of the day, I want to have an opportunity to play quarterback in the NFL.

For me, and I said this even before the draft, I think being with the same team for my whole career would be something that would be very special to me because, especially at the quarterback position, that means that we won a lot of games, hopefully Super Bowls, 'cause that's the end goal.

When you look at the best of the best, those quarterbacks played with one team. And if you point at a couple guys who didn't, who changed teams, it really was against their will.

I'm pretty much a .500 quarterback in my career so far and I don't think that's where you want to be, and that's not why you are brought in or people or excited about you.

Luckily, I had a guy like Andre Johnson to show me the ropes. He's had many quarterbacks in his career and he still had a successful career. Just having a guy like that to tell me to control what I can control, that's really all you can do.