Quotes About Career

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

When I talk to younger actors, and young people in general, who are holding off having children because they think they cannot fit them into their busy lives, I now know, and am able to say to them, 'You've just got to get on with it; there is never going to be a right time.'

At a certain point in my career, I was probably having a difficult time 'holding space.' So you get a character that has to be commanding in order for him to resonate and make sense.

My thing is I'm always concerned about my kids and their bodies holding up in the industry. We don't have time off. They run 365 days a year and gone all the time and performing every night. I'm kind of leaning for them to go to Hollywood.

I'm just not very good at holding on to jobs.

This black hole that people talk about in my career in the '70s, when I didn't make any films - in retrospect, what I was doing was learning my job.

When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.

It seems to be the way I get jobs - I book a holiday, I get to the other side of the world, then I'll get the job.

I did have good movies but they did not work in the Box Office... I did 'Holiday,' 'Aksar,' 'Plan' they were all good movies but they did not work.

As an actor, I always have this thing where I can't plan ahead for holidays or a break because I don't know when I might be needed for the next job.

I used to play as a striker in Holland. I grew up as a striker. That's the position I want to play.

When I was 14, I started playing in the bigger clubs in Holland and when I was 17, I started playing all of the festivals there.

I was born in Holland, Rotterdam, and lived there most of my life. I started my acting career there, but to really be successful, I left Holland and came to the U.S.

If I can make a superfight so when I finish my career I can say, 'You remember this fight with Ronda, with Holly Holm,' something nice that I can talk about with my kids or my friends - I'm open to make superfights.

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.

Catherine Zeta-Jones started out like me. Her big break in Hollywood was in 'Zorro.'

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

Getting married in 1947 and settling down in Hollywood was the real beginning of my career.

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.