Quotes About Career

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.

...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

Football is my job, not my life, but it's a job I'm going to give my all for as long as I'm in it.

There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.

I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.

Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell.

I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.

I'll always have my skate life, but I absolutely like the fun of making movies.

I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.

To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.

Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.

I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.

Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.

The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.

Don't let your life outside of school dictate your future.

The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.