Quotes About Career

There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.

You gotta understand, there weren't a whole lot of roles for Hispanics in the Eighties, so comedy was really the way I could really feed myself and eventually feed my family. I was an actor who learned to be a comic, and it's cool to come back and get back into acting - move forward in the direction I started out to do in the beginning.

I was worried about managing my time among shooting and with my son Kabir. He is yet small and needs me most of the time. But Yash wanted me to move on and get back to shoots. But I was nervous before starting shoots with my comeback show 'Ishqbaaz.'

I do feel a bit dejected about my film career. I am sad that it didn't take off as expected. I didn't get my due as an actor. I have an attractive personality and good looks. But I don't know what went wrong? You need to stop thinking about such things and move on.

As I move on to the professional stage of my career, I will always remember my time as a Jayhawk. Playing here has prepared me for the opportunity to have a successful career in the NBA.

I thought I was going to be a Bruin my whole career, so it was really tough to leave. But you just have to pick up and move on, and I've done that.

I grew up in Oldham and moved to Manchester and London. I didn't go to drama school. I just did a B-Tech.

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five - this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

When we moved to Australia in 2008, I decided to try to live off the writing.

I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.

My first job in a country band was after I moved to California.

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.

I was always one step behind Marilyn. She made all the right moves, hung out with the right people who could advance her career. I was just the opposite. I was always breaking dates with moguls and running off with guys younger than myself.

I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.

I'm always hesitant to make any serious moves because you never know how the N.F.L. will treat you, you know?

I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.

I've always wanted to do a family movie.

I am not one of those actors who will abandon my flagship serial, my main claim to fame, just because I've done a hit movie.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.