I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.
A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.
It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do.
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?
For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.
It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career.
Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies.
I've never had to deal with ageism - so far - in my career; I have been able to navigate my career and getting older and the roles and opportunities that have come to me.
I love it, but it's not important to me to always be thought of as sexy. I like it when it doesn't limit my career. It's a part of my life, but on a secondary plane
Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant responsibility but without complete authority over everyone that needed to be mobilized.
Michael Ian Black wears many hats. He's a stand-up comedian, a comedic actor, he's now a writer-director so he knew how to work with all of us. And furthermore, because so much of his career is based on improvisation he gave us the freedom to do that as well.
When I was younger, I thought, 'Ok, I'm supposed to do this project because it'll help my career,' but that didn't work because I ended up doing movies that I worked really hard on but I didn't really like and they didn't turn out well, so it was like I lost double. Once I just started working with people and projects I believed in, everything changed and I suddenly had a career that I loved and that I was proud of.
The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.
I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting.
You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.
My career is one thing in my life that I don't plan.