Quotes About Career

Q: What is the definition of an archaeologist? A: A person whose career is in ruins.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.

Now, in fresh surrender, we give you our planning for the next season of our lives. Show us the way we should go through our transitions—transitions of age and stage, career and calling, health and finances, relationships and ministries. Write stories of redemption beyond our wildest dreams and hopes. It's all about you, Jesus—not us, you.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

I always tell people when it's time to make a decision to stay or go [at a job], if it's a difficult decision, you should stay. If it's an easy decision, you should go.

Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model

It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.

At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

I've been writing full-time since 1978.

When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over the next five years continued to meet with him and go to his house.

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career-and then you move to Paris.

By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

Professionally, I decided to commit a lot of my time to California because there wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York.

Actors are separated all the time.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.