Quotes About Career

As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.

I don't know what the NFL's going to look like in 15 years. Who knows. It's a great game; it's done a lot for me in my life.

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.

You have to have a balance between your normal life and movies.

My life has been quite interesting professionally.

When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there!

Sports are my life. It is my life but it's also how I earn a living.

Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back.

If you meditate you will be able to find new ways to utilize your career and the routines of daily life.

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

If you're the kind of kid who thinks that all that's important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still the place to go, especially now that Trump's elected.

I'm learning that the times I felt the best about my life and career, I'm most like the water finding that path.

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?'

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.'