Quotes About Career

I have been in Los Angeles for a long time, and I have wanted to be a series lead for a long time. It's literally on my bucket list.

Question Time' had been on my fantasy bucket list for some time. Of all the jobs in broadcasting that's the job I knew I wanted to do.

I had two things on my bucket list: Be in the NBA, or direct an episode of 'New Girl.'

I like working on big budget films.

I've always said from starting off, 'I don't mind if I'm in a big budget film or a huge play or something small in London playing for 50 people, as long as I'm doing what I love doing for a living.'

I've been really fortunate in my career to do budgets at all different levels.

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.

If I wasn't doing music, I might have been a builder.

I wanted to be a violin-maker like my dad, and then I wanted to be a doorman in my building.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

I spent the bulk of my career on building my company, and Morningstar is where the passion is.

I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.

What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children.

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

I plan on having a long career. I don't want to burn out.

It's funny to think that at 22 years old, I was really burned out from being on the road for 10 years.

I was a kinesiology major in college, which is exercise science. Then, I was either going to get my Ph.D. or go to medical school, but I was kind of burned out after school.

When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.

The practice days, the walkthroughs, the bus rides - all those things you can't come back to. When you are getting into Year 15, you think about it. This thing is going to come to an end at some point.

Ever since 'The Apprentice,' my life has gotten so much busier.