Quotes About Career

A footballer who says they don't want to start games is in the wrong job.

I couldn't get roles as bad guys. They could see John Travolta as a gangster but not me, really. But, you know, that's just how things are.

Some of the gangster films I made - not so much the 'Krays,' because I'm really proud of that - but some of the films I made after that... There are a few of those movies I wish I'd never gone near. I'm proud of about 10 percent that I've ever done. If I never see the rest again I won't mind.

Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.

The pay gap has nothing to do with employer discrimination; it has to do with choice. Let's employ a little common sense: statistically, women are the likely of a family to forego a career for more time with the family, and maybe it's because they want to.

The executive female talent gap is real, and that's why it's critical to champion women throughout their careers.

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.

There were points when I've thought about getting into landscape gardening or getting back to illustrating, but mostly with a bit of a chip on my shoulder.

I am not saying Gary Neville is a nobody. He has accomplished a lot in his life, he is a legend. But as a coach? Let him stay on the TV.

Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'

I got into film school thinking I was going to make features, like every other film geek.

My football do-over is when I went to Seattle and had both jobs as coach and general manager.

People get confused because we all make a lot of money and it seems crazy to the general public, but this is something that we all love to do. We play this game because we love it and if we didn't get paid for it, most of us probably would still be playing.

Actors, I find, are generally happy to be working.

I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

At the end of the day, I'm an actor. I'm not here to sell other stuff or use off-screen things to generate whether or not I work. If I'm any good, I'll work; if I'm not, I won't.

People no longer have one job for life, so it is right that younger generations adapt.

The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all.

I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.