Quotes About Career

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

I could never have dreamt of the kind of career I had, but I was always happy with the ball in my hands or at my feet.

For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.

I am a hands-on mother, so I take long gaps between films.

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.

At 40 years of age, when you realize your bank balance will not see you through the years ahead, then my acting talent comes handy.

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

I left the Pumpkins in 2010, and I just took a year off to hang with my family and be with my daughter and my son and my wife, and just get acclimatised to being off the road. Then I started looking at what was going to be the next part of my career/legacy, whatever you want to call it.

I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.

When I look at my own career, growing up, I was doing really well at age 11, but it was kind of isolating because back then, people weren't hanging out with me. My mom was always there. She had my back and was like, 'You keep focused. You gotta keep focused.' And I think those kinds of lessons were hard.

I don't want to play father roles. And I use father roles figuratively for roles that are just hanging around... don't want to be a piece of furniture in films.

I was not one of those children hanging on Ma's coat-tails following her round sets. I'd go to the theatre after school if she was working, but I didn't even know what an agent was.

I would love to put closure on my career with one last fight at the Garden, but at the same time, if that doesn't happen, I definitely consider myself done.

If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.

Balika Vadhu' is the best thing to have happened to me.

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

Cricket was never my first choice. I never wanted to be a sportsperson. It just happened. It was destiny.

I still consider 'Vaastav' and Raj Kumar Santoshi's 'Pukar' two of my better films, though I admit nothing great happened thereafter.

Becoming an astronaut was a little bit of happenstance for me.

I'm happier in my career now than I've ever been.

I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.

Being married has not affected my career at all other than just making me happier to be on the road.

I'd been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don't think I would have the same career - my ego might not have been satisfied in some areas - but I think I would have been a happier man.

The older I get, the happier I am with the way my career has gone. Although, in many ways, it's been through no design of my own.