Quotes About Career

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.

A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be.

I don't think I'm misunderstood, but there is definitely a certain side of me that the press focuses on - my body, my hair, or who I'm dating - which has never really served me as an actor. It's served me in the commercial world, making money as a model, but the media perception has really hindered my acting career.

As far as fan perception, it's probably worse than it should be. I think it's getting better, but I think I still get perceived based on the things I did earlier in my career.

I'm going to give international cricket one more crack. The Pakistan job seems like a perfect fit.

Once I started working as an assistant director, I just realized very quickly that working on a film set was just a perfect fit for me.

There are days when I even long for the paralegal job that once upon a time made me so miserable. It wasn't the perfect fit for me but it was satisfying to go to sleep each night after a hard day's work at the office.

I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

In a perfect world, I'd end up at NXT.

Now, I am perfectly willing to just enjoy my career by choosing roles simply because I consider them to be a challenge and doing the best possible job I can.

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

Since the time I started working in Bollywood, I have wanted to come and perform in Kanpur.

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.

I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

If you are on television, that one night that someone is able to see you, you're talking about millions of people in one day. That's pretty awesome because then it helps you to jumpstart your career, and if you're the one to go out there and perform, people are going to come see you because those millions saw you on the television.

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.