Quotes About Career

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.

If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.

If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.

I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.