Quotes About Career

If anyone asks me, 'Should you do college gymnastics?' I'd say do it. I'm glad I decided to take this route.

I honestly don't think I can hack it in the 9-to-5 world, though I've never actually tried.

No one has said, 'What are you doing still playing?' Everyone said, 'Play as long as possible.' You stop when you stop enjoying it, and I'll know when I've had enough and can't keep up with the boys.

We've had enough career politicians in Helena who think the people are here to serve them. It's supposed to be the other way around.

The bubble bowl! Yes, that made my career, and I should be grateful. I was stomping my feet when Garren was giving me that haircut. It's hard to say to a 17-year-old girl in 1993 that a bowl haircut was cool.

I used to be a hairdresser.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a hairdresser.

I didn't have an agent until I got 'Hairspray.' I had to get a Broadway show without an agent to get an agent.

I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.

When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'

The longest show I've ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is like.

I think I started lip-synching about halfway through the first day, and it's not as easy as you think it would be. But it's definitely better than a day job.

I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

There's a compelling reason why I belong in the Hall of Fame, but I understand the argument against me. My career didn't go like most, and I'm 100 percent fine with that because that's what resonates with people.

I've graced almost every stage in N.Y., from Webster Hall to Gramercy Theater to Best Buy.

You see great players, Hall of Fame players that didn't stay with their team.

I want to just do my job and have a big impact on the organization, and hopefully be in the Hall of Fame one day.

Obviously, I've been very fortunate to be able to work for a Hall of Famer, to be able to coach a lot of Hall of Famers.

The hall of fame is something you do when you look back at the end of your career, not in the middle of it.