Quotes About Career

There were a lot of challenges I had to face on 'American Idol' that helped me grow in a few different ways that I'll take forever with my career.

I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

I don't think when I decided I didn't want to be an accountant any more that I was necessarily saying I wanted to be an NBA head coach. I just really wanted to figure out if I could do it.

I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.

When I first moved out to Los Angeles I was thinking, you know, I wanted to be an actor but I didn't really know what acting was about. I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I'd be happy.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

I know that I wouldn't mind going back to work if I could find the right script and the right crew to work with.

If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I'd be a happy woman.

We are on the road 250-280 days a year at least, and it's something that, if I have a wife and kids at home, I don't know if I could do it.

If I could have written a script of how I wanted my career to be, I couldn't have done it any better.

Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms.

I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it.

If I could find the perfect career of doing television and movies where I could sing, that would be great.

I love football, and if I could, I would play every day, even if it is my job.

I didn't want to work with my father. I wanted to see if I could develop my own career.

I don't sing. If I could sing or dance, I would have done something really gross in a G-string by now - when I wasn't working and was desperate - and ruined my career.

I used to say that if I could get paid to read books, my life would be made.

I wanted to see if I could make a living off of having fun.

Of course it's a big moment for me in my career if I could win on the PGA Tour.

I had this idea when I left drama school that if I could do everything, I'd always be working.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

I started my career, actually, maybe the first 10, 11 years, playing the bad boyfriend with the gun. And I got ill with that and moved on, for some reason, to playing cops all the time.

I always wanted to play abroad, but Ill admit I didnt think it would be Australia.