Tom Welling Quotes

I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.

I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'

Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

Two of the best roles I've ever had have happened in my late 40s.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

I've seen what can happen to an actor when he's just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it's ten years later, your career's happened, and you haven't had any control.

Definitely working on 'Deal or No Deal' was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing.

Hopefully I won't be 35 still playing a 16-year-old.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!

I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.

Business is not the aim of life; it's a game.