Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.
I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
You get in trouble, you have to evaluate: Is it worth getting into trouble again? It's a lot easier to make that decision when you have a career at stake.
When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.
Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.
Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.
I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.
If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.
You never get over losses. I've never gotten over one loss I've had in my career. They always stick with me.
In the beginning of my career, all I did was drama, and I couldn't get arrested doing comedy; nobody would hire me!
If you look at my career, I kind of got progressively better and better and better. I came closer to the top.
We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.
Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.
I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.
The thing early on that you think is 'wrong' with you, that makes you not fit in with everyone else, becomes the key to your career as an actor. Start embracing it.
I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth.
I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.
