Work & Career: Career Quotes

"I mean, it's hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late, and you're super tired, and your feet hurt"

Piper Perabo, Actress

"The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didn't think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it"

Paul Bettany, Actor

"This is really a difficult time to be in films"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"I've been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about"

James Denton, Actor

"I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors"

James Denton, Actor

"There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it"

Matthew McGrory, Actor

"The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!"

Ryan Seacrest, Entertainer

"Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition!"

Ryan Seacrest, Entertainer

"When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"TV can be a long commitment"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity!"

Ben McKenzie, Actor

"Years down the line, I became a food stylist"

Sally Schneider, Writer

"I've always wanted to act, and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly"

Alanna Ubach, Actress

"If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota"

Bill Janklow, Politician

""I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work?"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn't want any other"

Clayton Moore, Actor

"I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly"

James W. Black, Scientist

"I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me"

Will Friedle, Actor

"The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, 'Where Are They Now?'"

Henry Winkler, Actor

"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America"

Mel Torme, Musician

"I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play"

Will Friedle, Actor

"I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation"

Lee Child, Writer

"I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me"

Naima Adedapo, Musician

"I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet"

Michael Fassbender, Actor

"I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise"

Brendan Gleeson, Actor

"I have been able to play a lot of guys, and they have kept me working"

Donald Sutherland, Actor

"The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there"

Benjamin Cohen, Journalist

"I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody"

Joan Chen, Actress

"I was not a politician"

John Hewson, Politician

"I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing"

Illeana Douglas, Actress

"I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part"

Eva Gabor, Actress

"Simply surviving in this business is a feat"

Lou Diamond Phillips, Actor

"Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it"

Dennis Franz, Actor

"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation, who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function"

Frederick Pollock, Judge

Page 59 of 62