Quotes About Career

I don't want to lead the league in infield hits because, at some point in my career, I can't get away with it anymore.

After my debut film in 2002, I didn't deliver any big hits.

When we first began, we didn't have any hits.

I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

Directors have good and bad movies. My father also made some flop movies, and he had bigger hits, too. That should not determine anything.

Hits and flops will always be there for any actor.

When I had hits at country radio, that's what got my career off the ground and made my career.

I was up for parts in 'Charlie's Angels' and 'Three's Company,' but other people got them. At the time I was very disappointed because I knew the shows would be tremendous hits. But if I had done either I would not have done the following: 'Chorus Line,' 'Dancin',' 'Chicago,' 'Movie Movie,' 'All That Jazz' and 'Annie.'

If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.

I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.

I think people have at least two careers in them, so we decided to turn our hobbies of motorbikes, cooking and chatting into a living.

Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor.

My hobby is work.

I'd been acting as a hobby since I got to the U.K.

The main thing I learned in San Diego was I can't do this and compete with the best guys in the world if I'm just doing MMA as a hobby. It has to be my job.

Dance is a very disciplining career or hobby. I was disciplined at an early age.

Tennis was my hobby which became my career but it never felt like a job.

Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the greatest.

No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.

As far as my education goes, I've always felt that was my hobby instead of acting.

Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.