Quotes About Career

Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.

House of the Dead 2 I gave away. Alone in the Dark 2 I will also not do; even if the DVD movie made money. BloodRayne 2 in the Wild West is what I really want to do.

You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing.

I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.

Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle. You end up focusing all your energy on trying to get parts you don't even want.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

I was put into this business by my parents as soon as I could walk. I was groomed by them for this business. I didn't wake up at the early ages of 5 or 6 and say I want to be a star.

Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.

I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for Battlestar. I was very "Oh gosh, I want to be in television, I want to be in something, but I don't know if I want to be in this."

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, "Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera," and I don't want that.

I find the film world very romantic. I want to try to be in more movies. When you're on a TV show and you do the same thing for years and years, it can get a little bit boring.

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!

You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years.

I'm a comic because I don't want to do the nine-to-five, I have to modify that and say I'm a comic because I have an inability to do a nine-to-five.

Oh, I know I can sing. What I really want to be is an actress.