Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite.
For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.
I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.
I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.
I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.
I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.
I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.
No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.
Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.
There are times in my career where I can see it would be helped by having a bit more of a profile, but it's not like I refuse to do interviews, no, not at all.
A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.
I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!
The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.
I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.
I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
