Jamie Hyneman Quotes

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.

For a few years, I thought I was putting show business behind me. I was busy doing other things in life, particularly with politics. I was not out looking for films, really. I lost interest.

I did modelling for five years, then I felt I wanted to do something different and challenging.

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

When I had Mason, I was really ready to leave the business of acting, but still wanted to do work that I could control.

I expect my next job to be outside government.

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.