Quotes About Career

I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career.

Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.

My ability to bring different characters to life is what has helped me advance in my career, and I would say as far as looks are concerned, well, I suppose that would be the icing on the cake, but acting comes first and foremost.

As an actor, I have had an iconic journey and was fortunate enough to have worked with some really wonderful directors.

Id avoided the business as much as I could because of how little I was interested in being constantly associated with my parents.

For me, announcing wasn't the ideal working condition.

In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!'

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.

After football, ideally I want to take Gary Lineker's job, but we'll see about that. I'd love to do that, present 'Match of the Day.'

Ideally, I'd like to keep a balance between action and romantic roles.

I do not think that my life starts and ends with films. I do not use my profession as my identification.

I would say, up until 'Anchorman,' I wasn't any kind of household name or anything, but I wasn't necessarily identified as much with being a comedian.

I've always identified as an actor. That's what I set out to do.

Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

There's a point where you think, 'What else will I do if I don't do music?' It becomes your identity when it never should have been. But food ignited a fire in me, and I came right back to music because it no longer felt like a job. It was a really powerful thing for me.

I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.

I could only be frustrated right from the day I started in WCW and realized that it was a company run by a bunch of idiots that didn't have a clue what they were doing.

I think America did a great job. I think Carrie Underwood fits the bill of American Idol. She's a wonderful girl, and she's gonna have a great career.

I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.

I want to take Ryan Seacrest's job. I want his job on 'American Idol.'

I didn't necessarily hit rock bottom, but I was working at Sprinkles Cupcakes and trying to make money, not wanting to tell anybody that I was getting a job because other people that I knew from 'Idol' were like, 'Why aren't you singing places and making money off of the Idol name?' And I was like, 'Because I don't only want to be known for that.'

To get to work with my idol, Martin Scorsese, has just been lovely - the highlight of my career.