Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent.
I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.
If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
I think I signed some contract, early on in my career, that I will only kiss Steve Carell when I do a movie.
Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.
I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.
It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.
I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.
You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
In a way, I was spoon-fed, if you will, a career. It was fully manufactured by a studio that believed that they could put me on their posters and turn me into their bottle of Coca-Cola, their product.
I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.
If my career isn't going that well, I'd rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: 'I'm for hire! Remember me!'
I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.
I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career - how many tickets are sold.
