Quotes About Career

When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.

If I'm working, I'm not D.J.'ing. And if I'm not working, I'm D.J.'ing all the time.

I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I put one on.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

I always - I knew from day one , in college, that I wanted to be a teacher .But I don't think I had envisioned becoming a professor at the time. I remained a history major until 1951.

To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield."

I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.

My family means everything to me and the birth of our daughter has enabled me to have more focus on my career and every time I compete, I dedicate my success to them.

I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.

I'm too grateful that I continue to grow as an actor. I hope I get better. I feel like I am. But it's a roll of the dice every time you make a movie. Nobody knows.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.

I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.

I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.

I really do consider myself quite fledgling in my acting career. I've only been doing it for 10 years and that's a short amount of time, really.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.