Quotes About Career

Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands.

You just never know what the grand plan is on 'Dexter,' so I didn't know if I was going to make it to the next episode, let alone the next season!

I've had dreams - there were three things I wanted to do during my career. I did them during my first year of Grand Prix.

I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

My father and my grandfather always watch my films and share their feedback with me. It helps me a lot in my own career.

My grandfather was a very successful businessman. He started off as an engineer, but moved to sales to management to executive over a long career. For a while, before I was born, he was the CEO of an oil and gas exploration company.

I grew up cooking. I was always in my grandma's cooking, and I never thought of it as a career.

I was complimented for looking young and yet was offered roles of aunts, sister-in-law and very soon grandma too!

I was inspired by Cary Grant. I wanted to do the kind of work he did and to work in light-hearted roles, in comedies.

In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows. Suddenly, I sort of 'came out' as an artist.

I have been playing for England since I was 18, and while I wouldn't say I took it all for granted, it just seemed to be a part of my season - to play for Arsenal and to play for England.

My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.

In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much.

I hope my career will be long-term. It's not something I'm taking for granted, but we try to plan that way.

What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.

I was clear about the fact that my first film should be 'big,' since it's the start of your whole career graph.

When you perform in your first film, it adds a lot to your career graph. The journey becomes easy.

I would love to follow a career graph like Akshay Kumar's.

If you look at my career graph, I have always chosen roles that are performance-oriented.

I have a brother who's a schoolteacher, a sister who's a graphic artist, a brother who is a lawyer. I have a brother who's a carpenter.

I went to community college for graphic design, and I loved it, but I wasn't into the school thing, so that didn't work out.

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.

You know, I'm just grateful to be in this business and to be able to stay in it.