Quotes About Career

I remember auditioning for something where the woman was supposed to be 42, and I was 33 or something, and they were like, 'No women over 35 can audition.' That was in the breakdown. I don't think they would do that anymore - I would like to hope that they wouldn't put that in writing - but it's mind-boggling.

My dad worked all his life, an engineer, 30 years, week in, week out at the same machine. That is mind-boggling to me. I do not know how the hell he did it.

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

I never had had a large group of friends, so I often felt a little out of place and like I was in a different mindset from everyone else around me because I was so focused on my acting career.

The mindset in India is to get an education that will secure a job, and then think about how to get a particular salary. We're used to that kind of a life, and that's how we bring up our children.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine.

That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

My grandad used to work in the mines, he's retired now, but he's been a big part of my career.

Life isn't that complicated. I'm completely happy playing football. I'm happy to get out of the coal mines.

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

I don't have any ambition to become minister.

I've been blessed - every job I've had I've loved, whether it's as a lawyer, MP, cabinet minister.

I wasn't a party apparatchik. I think too many of today's people in both parties come forward, university, 'What party will I join? Oh, yes, I know somebody here. I might get a job working for this member or for that shadow minister or minister.'

I have been an MP and government minister.

I got my Equity card at 24 at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and they asked me to join the company. I was content and happy working in the company there for a long while until I really started to feel as if I hit a bit of a glass ceiling artistically.

It would have been harder for me to get rookie of the year in Cleveland than it would've been in Minnesota.

My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.

When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.

When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.

Football, I thought, would be a tough sport to make a living in. There is no minor league. You either make it to the NFL or you don't.