Quotes About Career

The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too.

I've been working since I was 18. People say something every time I cut my hair. They wouldn't say this to Dustin Hoffman.

I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do, but there's a lot going on out there. There are a lot fewer films being made, and there's a lot of competition.

I've actually had a great career in Hollywood. I've been a working actor my whole life.

I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

There are 365 days in the year, and as a working actor, you might only work 17 of them. You might only need to do two ads and you can afford to live for the year, but it doesn't make for a very satisfactory or fulfilling life. The point isn't to not work - it's to work.

Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.

I've always just liked working. I like being a working actor.

I consider myself a fortunate working actor, but I really work at it all the time. If I have a couple of weeks off, I'm taking class. You never stop. I started when I was 10 years old in Cleveland, and I've never stopped working my butt off.

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

I'm very happy to be a working actor.

I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.

For the working actor, there's nothing more stable than a network television show.

I started working right away as a kid, so I didn't have a chance to go to improv school or anything like that; I was already a working actor.

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

I was never a celebrity - just a working actor.

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

'Wings' offered me the rare opportunity to be a full-time dad and a working actor for eight years.

I'd like to be a steadily working actor and to do as many things as possible. I'm really enjoying the life.