Quotes About Career

I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.

I grew up in Balham in south London, and my best friend's brother was Geoffrey Robinson, who of course later became paymaster general, but at that time, he was working in politics.

Where I grew up in South East London you became a cab driver or worked in a flower market.

I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.

For two years, I was without a movie down South, and 'Department' proved a disaster; people don't even remember the film.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

One minute I was a PR intern, the next I was Miss South Africa.

It's enough to play for South Africa and take wickets for South Africa, and then I managed to get 400. I never thought that that would happen.

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

I can't see myself playing anywhere else in the world. You don't know how much I want to play international cricket for South Africa.

I am happy to playing against teams like South Africa and Australia early on in my career. It is going to make me stronger as a cricketer.

Nobody thought a white girl should learn to cook in South Africa. I went to drama school. My mother was an actress, so I thought I'd be an actress.

I have always loved South Africa, where I shot 'Andaz' and 'No Entry.' Some of the biggest films of my career have been shot in Cape Town.

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.

The first job I ever had was right here in San Francisco with Southern Pacific.

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

My parents are from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and I feel like it's an old Southern thing where people say that, as a kid, you can be an astronaut or a ballerina or a singer, but as a grown person, you need to go and get a job.

I knew no one in New York City was going to hire me if I had a southern accent.

I wasn't really interested in doing anything except going from pilot season to pilot season and sowing my oats in the months between and telling my agency to stop sending me movie scripts, because they'd pile up in my house and make me feel guilty because I had to read them.

'Space finder' is a phase I used in an interview one time, and it's followed me ever since.

I think I came at the right moment at 'SNL.' There was a space for me, and I was good at it.

It was so quick for me on 'SNL.' It's not something I consider to be, like, one of the big spaces in my career.

I've reached a stage and an age in my career where I need to do work that keeps me economically and emotionally comfortable. And for that I need to get into spaces that don't require me to make too many compromises with my beliefs as an an actor.

The reality is that throughout my career I've tackled projects in Spain that I'm proud of.