Quotes About Career

Ed Rogers is a career insider who has personally enriched himself off of what he decries.

Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

I would like to have opportunities in my career to do parts that people would remember - either the whole character or certain moments that they personally could really connect to or were really affected by it deeply.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective.

Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.

The Tamil film '3' is a movie that I will always be proud of, irrespective of whether it did well at the BO or not. It completely changed my career and people's perspective of me as a performer.

My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.

My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.

My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in our lives and has a great career of her own. Same with my father. So I knew it was possible going in to stay closely connected to my children while also chasing big dreams. And it's given me great perspective.

My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career.

I stumbled into acting because a friend persuaded me to leave my 9 to 5 job and get into acting.

There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

This is always one of my big pet peeves is that 65% of NBA players, three years out of the NBA, are broke. I mean, so, maybe maturing a little more on the front end and getting an education might serve you well down the road.

I was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in 'Heavenly Creatures.'

I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men.' Or play Peter Dinklage's cousin on 'Game of Thrones.' That would be fun.

A performer learns with experience and with age. I did not know the future when I left home and started out to begin my career: I started qawaali; then I met Peter Gabriel and was exposed to a lot of new ideas.

I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.

I don't want my career to peter out fighting meaningless fights; I want to go against the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world.