Quotes About Career

My first job was baby-sitting. I had a great time because I love kids. Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, I'm like: "Oh, you know what? I'm going to chuck it in and become a kindergarten teacher!"

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

It's time to sleep your way to the top.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true.

I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

There was a time where I chose my jobs based on what jobs were available to me, so I would choose 100 percent of them.

My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.

I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.

If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.

I started out coming out of college, I had my realtor's license and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.

Probably though, by the time I was 17, I already knew that I was probably going to go into film

You know, most of my career I wrote about moments in time. All of us have felt one thing or another and it didn't last very long. Now I'm drawing from real experience. It's a huge difference.

Professionally, the first time I sang was on 'Alice Upside Down.' It was the first movie that I did, and I had this little mini singing part.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.