Quotes About Career

To actually be independent financially was a big luxury. Modelling gave me an independence, it gave me responsibility. I didn't have to work at McDonald's. I could save up and choose the training that I wanted to do.

During my modelling days, I would hear there's no dearth of female models aspiring to be actors.

When I came into the industry, I didn't know anyone. I was modelling and I got one opportunity after another. This industry has given me life and my home.

I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.

When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.

Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.

It is draining when you have a child, and there aren't many women directors with kids out there as role models.

Social media just plays this massive factor in all of our lives now, and also, the bloggers and influencers are coming in and taking our jobs as models.

While the kids are little, I want to maintain a job, keep a roof over their heads, and make them proud. I want them to have good female role models in their life.

In the modern era, with the rewards the top players have during their career and the risks involved moving into management, more will look at it and say they don't need it.

My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.

My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a huge, huge part of my career and my life.

My mom used to be a model.

What I'm trying to say is, I'm really happy I'm not a doctor. So, take that mom and dad.

I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

The first hit record is easy compared to the second one. You've got to have two for momentum. If you have three, you're pretty much made. But one isn't enough.

I try to be as full-time mommy as possible and also full-time working woman. That is the example I grew up with. Working mommy but also very present.

When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off the air, I was 28 years old, married with two kids. At that point I felt I really wanted to be mommy to my children. But I found that after a year and a half, I really missed the part of myself that was an actress.

I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.

But my family's really close and I was interested in what Mommy and Daddy did for a living. So when Mommy and Daddy had a script that wasn't totally age inappropriate, they would let me read it. And we would talk about it.

I've been so fortunate to work with so many successful women who are moms as well.

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.