Quotes About Career

I have been very fortunate to see some very clearly excellent players play well to the very ends of their career, where they opted not to play anymore. I'm talking about Adrian Beltre. I'm talking about Torii Hunter. I'm talking about David Ortiz, Chipper Jones, Derek Jeter. These are players who decided, 'You know, I've had enough. That's good.'

I'd been a Bond girl and in Dracula films and 'Coronation Street,' but I was always hunting for work. After 'The New Avengers,' I never had to wait for work again.

I want to play the Tour until I'm 46, 47, and then take about three years off, and then go play the Champions Tour when I'm 50. That's the plan, but you never know - it all depends on how good the fishing and hunting is.

The basic problem with young people entering show business is that they are in a hurry.

I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.

All my life I made a living out of hurting people. Now, I make a living out of making people laugh.

Now I tell my mom, I go, 'Mom, you know when I was a kid and you told me to turn off the television and go outside and play?' I'd be like, 'You literally were hurting my career when you did that. You literally stopped me from doing now, what I do for a living.'

It hurts when you are at a club you loved, a place where you think you might want to end your career, and things go badly.

You can't have a relationship when you're shooting a 14-hour day and your husband is shooting a 14-hour day in the same city. It's a time thing and it's a together thing.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

That got me to L.A. and reintroduced me to my future husband.

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.

I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

I've had three husbands, but my real romance is my work.

Women are empowered, and they got better jobs than their husbands.

I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it.

I still have to hustle to get jobs, audition and put myself out there.

I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business.

Baseball has been very good to me, but baseball has evolved into a hybrid of work and passion.

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.

I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.