Quotes About Career

My father didn't want to go to Manhattan for me, and I came to Manhattan and I have done a great job in Manhattan. And then I wrote a best-seller and I wrote numerous best-sellers.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.

I have a contract and I refused a lot of opportunities to be the manager of important clubs because I want to stay here. I like this job. I like to be the England manager.

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

I felt for a really long time, "When I grow up I want to be an actor." And now I'm like, "Oh, this is it now. This is my life."

Twenty thousand? Fifty? Five? Scholars make a career of not agreeing on anything.

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

After I graduated from Harvard, I enrolled in the school of journalism at Columbia University. I did that for my dad. He wanted his son to be a journalist. I disappointed him. I wrote about sports instead.

How do we end up doing whatever it is we're doing? If people didn't already have an affinity for a task, would they pursue it? Do people start out saying to themselves, gee, I suck at this math stuff, I guess I'll become an astrophysicist.

While great hair and teeth are a good start to a political career, an ability to pretend at least half convincingly that you have an affinity to all key ethnic groups in your state is a definite plus.

I feel guilty because I think people should do something they really like to do in life. I should do something else, but there is nothing I can do really well. I'm established and make a steady living, so it becomes pretty easy. It's not very fulfilling . . . but I'm lazy, I admit it. It's an easier thing to do.

Americans are always saying, "I'm not enjoying what I'm doing now, but I'm making money. I'm preparing to do a thing which will be more important in the future." In the meantime, make a buck. That's

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

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Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.

Acting in soaps proved a health hazard to me and I withdrew.

I have to stay in soaps to pay my bills to Kodak.

The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.