Quotes About Career

I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.

'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29.

After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.

I didn't want to go to Golden State. I didn't want to go back in Steph's shadow.

My career was dwindling down and I got to be in Golden State for two years and show I still have it.

I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.

I worked at the golf course, and I always had dreams and aspirations of being a professional golfer.

People have asked me, 'What would you have done if you hadn't gone into the Army?' I'd say I'd probably be a bus driver. I don't know.

I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.

I was born military. I made up my mind right away, 'Im gong to do this for the rest of my life.'

I already knew that this is what I'm gonna do during my life because martial arts, for me, it's not just my job. It's not just the way to get some money. Of course it's important.

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

I want to do good action flicks and romantic comedies from now on.

I like to continue as a good actor.

You can never write off a good actor, look at Arshad Warsi, one 'Munna Bhai' and he's back in business.

I think I am a good actor myself. If I wasn't a director, I would have been an actor.

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.

The closest person in the industry to me who is like a big brother is Tyrese. He gives me a lot of good advice. We both do the same things. We're both from the same background.

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.

I did a lot of hokey movies when I was starting out at MGM. Good and bad, mostly bad.

'Saw' was good and bad. It was good in that it gave me a career start, but it was also negative in that it really marginalized me as a filmmaker.

I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.