Quotes About Career

I would be the worst biologist in the world!

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

Women can have a career, but the real career is to be a woman. It's beautiful to be a woman and give birth.

My family realized I was going to do birth work and then music; they were like, 'What's a doula? This is not what you were meant to do!' And I was like, 'Everyone thinks they can only do one thing.'

I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.

Because in this business, as you know, you don't get that many bites at the apple, so I make documentaries for HBO and that's what I do.

Well, I spent 23 years in politics, and bits of that were fun.

Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.

I would hate to be a bitter, aging actor.

I was an electrician, and now I'm in 'Electric Dreams.' It's almost bizarre.

My career may look bizarre to some, but I have very strong reasons for doing every single job I've done.

I always say to Blake Griffin that he has a better comedy career than I do.

Can you blame star kids for that? If I'm somebody's daughter, and I'm being offered a film, why would I say no?

If you're doing a job, and you secretly want to do a different job, you start to blame the job. I was blaming the teaching for that fact I wasn't performing. I really felt I needed to follow a comedy career.

It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it.

'Nanette' has been a journey. She went from being something of a personal little blast to the world from me, that I expected would seal me off into the margins as far as my career is concerned, and into an idiosyncratic sort of life beyond all of that.

Being able to blend with the new kids and the youth will give you longevity and will put legs on your career.

I've been blessed to have a long career.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years.

I have actually been very blessed in my career.

I never grew up thinking I wanted to be a quote-unquote star or anything. My thing was just feeling blessed to be able to make my living acting.

You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.