Quotes About Career

In my mind, I still think - and wish - that I'm going to be a journalist or a writer. That's been my dream job my entire life.

Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

'All the President's Men' is a movie that has a very personal place for me because it made me want to be a journalist, and then it made me want to be a filmmaker.

I wanted to go to college to be a journalist and follow in my dad's work. And then I became an actor.

If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.

Every interview I've done since I've turned 40, the journalist will say, 'So, isn't it amazing? Your career should be over, but you're still working. Why do you think you have found a career at a time when a lot of women are slowing down?'

I'm a journalist and, before, a next TV star.

If I wasn't an engineer, I would have been a film journalist.

I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.

Whatever my critics say, I've been a hard-core journalist all my career.

That's what I think a journalist from the '70s and '80s should look like - as though he has led a full journalistic life.

On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young journalists, and the great feedback I got was that I would not or should not become an anchor because my eyelashes were too long and too distracting.

When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.

I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

I would say, hand on heart, I probably had a very good relationship with the press. The tennis journalists that followed me throughout my career... sure, you know, we had a few bumps in the road, if you like, but that's what you're paid to do.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

Everyone in the league has a journey or a legacy, whether you're in the league for five years or you're in the league for one year.

When I got out of high school, I thought, 'I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.' More than 40 years later, I figure it's finally time to write about this crazy journey that's taken me around the world and back.

I do not want to be a journeyman.

I consider myself a journeyman actor, and I pride myself and look forward to keeping my career choices as diverse as possible because it challenges me as an actor.

I really don't want to be a journeyman.

'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.