Quotes About Career

To tell you the truth, I thought I would be returning kicks and punts my whole career. I thought that was going to be my deal, and I was fine with that.

When I was a little kid, I wanted to be an actor.

I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

I'm not domestic. I think I will be. I love kids. I really want to have a kid, but I'm not a domestic person.

If you look at someone like Kim Coates, you realize that he's been in everything.

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

When I started my career, I started with black comics: Bruce Bruce, Mark Curry, Bill Bellamy. It takes all kinds of influences.

Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

I'm Kiss the artist, and Jason the father. It's my job.

From the time I entered the industry, I have always been clear about certain things - no short clothes, no kissing, no bikinis. Nobody comes to me with such roles. And I have no dearth of work.

If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.

I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

I had the pleasure of working for Hart Hanson as the writers' assistant on the Fox show 'Bones.' He was always willing to take five minutes in the kitchen and answer questions I had about writing and the business. Looking back now, I realize he might have just been politely waiting for the coffee to brew.

I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life - every aspect of it.

Since I was 14, I worked more than 13 hours a day as a kitchen runner for a butcher.

Had I not been an actor, I would have been counting cash at my father's restaurant or supervising activities in the kitchen. I did it for a year when I was in college. I put on 10 kgs and then it hit me that I couldn't do that anymore.

So, when I was about eight, I told my mother that I wanted to be a chef - and a police man, too. I didn't totally know that was it at the time, but I was very attracted to it from the beginning. I liked the idea of working with people in a kitchen, of dealing with ingredients, all of it.

I have to keep the kitchen running, so I can't stop acting in commercial films.

Since high school Ive been working in kitchens.

I've seen many amazing chefs, girls, come into the kitchen and then give it up to be with their boyfriend. Would he do that for her?

I am not adding more films to my kitty just for the sake of money; I choose my script and do it.