Quotes About Career

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

My agent didn't want me on Disney because I'm older. But honestly, I'm not ready for older roles yet, or even the things older girls do. I am still young.

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

They were saying you would be a tremendous addition to the military, and we can get you into West Point with a full scholarship. And I simply said, I want to be a doctor. I really appreciate it.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.

The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

I miss doing a series, but I don't want to do a series for a series' sake.

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

When the sun is shining, make hay, because it would be sunset on my career at some point, and when it is, I want to be exhausted.

That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.