Quotes About Career

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.

When I grow up, I want to be like Diplo, for sure.

Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to be on Broadway!'

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.

I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.

I didn't grow up in politics.

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

Your parents would not be happy if you came home and said you wanted to grow up to be a chef or a rock star.

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all.

I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'

I had a real strong fantasy life as a kid. But then you grow up and think about real jobs.

I didn't know I was gonna act. I thought I was gonna be a singer because that's what I did first, and I was like, 'When I grow up, I want to be, you know, a singer.'

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

We spend on average 220 days of the year out of the country. It's a long time to be away from your family especially when your children are growing up.

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.

Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.