Quotes About Career

It would have been a short career if I had not been traded to Boston. I was rejuvenated in Boston.

You know, my first nine years I only played for two teams, Chicago and New York. And the only reason I got traded from New York was the 2010 free agency period, when they had a chance to sign LeBron and D-Wade and that whole class, and I understood that. But from there it's kind of been a roller coaster.

Being traded a couple times - and I've been traded after winning Rookie of the Year - is out of your control.

There were times in my career where I could have easily been traded, easily been given up on, and I think me making strides, me making a commitment to myself to come in and get better showed people what I could do each year.

I always liked acting in school and drama classes, but when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always told them I wanted to be a singer. I didn't want to be a jack of all trades. I wanted to master one.

I always wanted to be the No. 1 pick, but come draft night anything can happen - trades, or anything like that.

If you're a student that likes to, you know - that wants to go into the trades and have an incredible job, and you're a student that loves the electricity or whatever it may be, in all honesty, a lot of times when you walk the halls people may - other kids may look down on you a little bit. It's not fair. It's not right.

I want us to develop a way to where kids in high school and the trades can get an associate degree while they're in high school.

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

One of the great advantages that I had in my career is I started trading 24 hours a day in my early 20s, and I had to learn to delegate to people.

I started trading around 1979, fresh out of college. In the early '90s, I started guesting for major news media.

The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab.

Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?

I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn't see the point - although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn't devoted to it.

I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

The idea that I get to travel and do what I love and call it a job is just a blessing.

I was just doing it for fun. I was in college recording music as a joke, so I really didn't think that a career was feasible - being able to travel.

I know that I've been blessed in many ways, and I was fortunate enough to travel the world and meet a lot of interesting people. But I never felt that the modeling career was all that important.

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.