Anybody that has a decent job or career has it because they love what they do.
I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
One of the things I do tell young women, if they want to pursue a career in acting, is to get good stage training. It is essential to have a good basis in stage technique. You can move into film easily, and acquire more skill and more understanding, but you can't necessarily go the other way around. For women, longevity of career will very much be on stage.
I'm so thankful that I've had such a long and uninterrupted career. I count my blessings every day for that because it was so fulfilling.
I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.
I love Tom [Waits] for the same reason I love Leonard Cohen, which is that they are both one-offs, templates; they both seemed old, or at least dressed old when they were young; both kind of lived their careers backwards.
One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.
I started my career in Dallas, yes. I was born and raised in Dallas. I started my career there when I was very young. My guitar was bigger than I was. That's how young I was.
The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.
A lot of times you tell yourself no with things, a lot of times you discourage yourself. I've told myself yes more than no, and with those yeses, I've been able to actually have a career.
I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.
No matter if you're just starting out or if you are at the peak of your career, the more you work in your strength zone, the more successful you will be.
How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.
I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.
My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.
Stretching, which I do for five to 10 minutes before and after a match, is so important in general when it comes to prolonging your career and staying injury-free.
I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.
For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur. . . Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.