Quotes About Career

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

I realized that what we do as professions affects how we act as people, big-time.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes six months - the rest of us have to jump around to make ends meet.

I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.

Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.

I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.

American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as 'Like Mike' and 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one

could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.

Time moves on but Barbara Hershey's doing good and John Heard, they're all people working. I know there were a couple of kids in that movie who I used who have been in other movies since Beaches.

Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.