Michael Seibel Quotes

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

When I finished law school, I had a 10-year plan. My plan was to go to a law firm, fall madly in love, have a baby by the time I was 30, make partner, and live happily ever after.

I don't know where I will be in 5 weeks let alone five years. But if I am still working in politics, I hope I never lose sight of why I got involved in the first place.

I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.

There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

There's been certain opportunities that have arisen that would have been financially quite advantageous but, creatively, would have steered me away from my career plan.

It's a good idea to have your career intact and then have children.

I had this idea that I didn't want to have kids until my career was at the right point, until we have a house, until we have savings of at least this much ... None of that came true. It just happened.

I knew that I always wanted to work even after I got married.

Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.

I don't really like to say, 'This is where I'll be in five years,' because I truly have no idea.

I was going to become a teacher.

The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.

I do feel grateful, and I love what I'm doing, and I'm happy, and I'm living in the moment, but I also have my eye on the long game and the big prize, and that is just to make this a life-long career. To make a big enough impact on everybody to stick around for a long time.

If I'm only fighting once or twice a year, that's just not going to be enough to make a dent in the sport or enough financially for me to get myself to where I want to be and position myself.

Because I'm not ambitious it's not paramount for me to find myself in a high-paid job.

I joined the police force with one motivation in mind: to become a high school PE teacher. After a year of working, I realized that a) I was making twice as much money as I would in the teaching profession, and b) I was having too much fun. I stuck it out for 32 years and no regrets.

I want to be in my prime making the big money, enough money to put away so I can do something.

I've always said I'm gonna work the road as hard as I can 'til I'm 50, then I might slow down a little bit.

When you have a job you know you'd do for free, it takes a lot of the pressure away to be successful at it. So if it's doing theater in New York or teaching acting, I'm down for all of it.

I knew I always wanted to get involved in politics.

It's easy to become complacent when you are earning decent money as a young player. It's important to understand that there is a lot to achieve, and there is a long way to go before you are where you actually want to be.

To be honest, I'm not the kind of guy to think about the future in the long term.

I've been working on this career path of mine since I was three years old.