Quotes About Career

Obviously, you have to be lucky enough for people to want you to be in films, but that is the plan, definitely.

I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.

A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.

I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think you should be a doctor, instead of a musician."

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.

I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.

As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.

I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.

I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I wouldn't want people to know.

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

I love talk shows and hosting. I would want to do something like that. I'm not sure I would want to be a reality star continuously.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

People want to consume what you're putting out there, and you can create a really strong following of fans and admirers, and people who are invested in your career and your comedy.

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.