Quotes About Career

About seven years ago, I was anchoring a BBC news program and somebody else was brought in to do it. I had that moment of thinking, 'My God, Im a complete failure. Ill never work again.'

I don't think we should put a number on how long you should coach or how old you should be. It should be illegal. Go as long as you can do a good job. It shouldn't be an age thing.

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.

I think I've had an illustrious career.

I wanted to play a domestic help all my life... Because I wanted to break my image.

I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.

I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.

Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.

Football is my life, and I cannot imagine myself doing anything other than playing this game.

The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.

I can't imagine myself not working. And I hope my daughter will work when she's older.

I never imagined that I'd end up in animation, but marine biology and art collided, and here we are!

I was such a mama's boy that no one imagined that I could come into the film line. She wanted me to do a bank job.

At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.

I never imagined myself making these big movies and being married and having kids.

I don't care about my personal acting career anymore. I'm done with it. After 10 years of making movies and doing better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself: 'What am I supposed to do with all of this success that I have had?'

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.

I never imagined being on television.