Quotes About Career

I hope I am offered good roles and all my releases are hits.

I have been constantly working. It's just that it has not been only Hindi films.

Theatre especially in Hindi is not enough to help an artiste in earning a livelihood.

I never really thought it was so important to work in Hindi movies.

I am looking forward to doing roles in Hindi films but have to watch my step.

After acting in several Hindi films, I have decided to be a producer.

In hindsight I might have chosen a different path and everything but I still make music, I have a core following that wait for every new album and it's given me the career I have now.

I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.

I think for me, I get so much love that it balances or overpowers the hate. When I started making music, it was kind of flawless for me. I didn't get any hate early in my hip-hop career.

I've been called a career hippie. I like that, I like that a lot.

I drew a line for myself. I never dated anyone that could hire me when I was first in Hollywood, and I think that kept me focused on what I was there to do and how I wanted to go about it. I took it a step at a time.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

I feel happy when people hire me only as an actor.

At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.

Nobody would hire me for TV, not that they should.

I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.

I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

I've always worked out. I've always gone to the gym. But it was always a chore, and it was always, like, 'Man, I've gotta go do this because if I don't I'll get all dumpy and out of shape and then no one will hire me for good roles.'

People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like, 'I can do this with my life' kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor, where other people feel like they can hire you.

I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire... But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.

I'll continue working as long as people want to hire me.

I tried to play anything people would hire me to play, because I was a musician.

When you get successful, the money comes in and pretty soon you've got to hire an accountant, you've got to get up early, and then you've got a day job.