Career Decision Quotes

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

I was offered Vicky Kaushal's role in 'Lust Stories,' which I had declined.

City came in strongly for me, put their cards on the table, and what I have found out since is that every game in England is a privilege - the atmosphere, the fans, the interest that surrounds it. Every time I go out on the pitch, I know I've made the right decision.

If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.

I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

I love actors. I'm empathetic to them. I understand what they go through. But I didn't want to be an actor.

As a player, you have to see what's out there. But, at the end of the day, I knew Atlanta was my home, and it's where I wanted to be.

Do I appear to you to have come to a wrong decision, if I devote that time to philosophy, which I otherwise should have spent at the loom?

Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.

I received a call from America after finishing 'Suspect', and I told them that I would go to America if things are ready.

When the chance came to join a great club like Liverpool, I weighed up my options and it was obviously the best move for me.

When I came to Mumbai in 2005 for a holiday, I received work offers. So I decided to stay back and pursue a modelling and acting career.

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.

Before signing 'Dawat-E-Ishq,' I came across few more offers, but none of them interested me. This film has a soul, and I went for it.

It has been an honour to present BBC 'Sports Personality Of The Year' for the last 19 years and I have loved every minute of it. The BBC have asked me to stay but I had made the decision to downsize my commitments a while ago, and I knew that the time would be right after what was always set to be a magical 2012.

If I lose to DeLuca I will announce my retirement in the ring after.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

I'd been playing everything and decided that this was something I maybe wanted to make a career out of. I knew where some companies were, but I saw the name 'Bethesda, Maryland' on 'Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3.'

I was in a very lucky position to be able to consider studio films and had decided to not go that route for a very long time until I read a script that I loved called 'Aeon Flux.'

I never considered leaving Real Madrid or that it was a mistake to come here.

I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

The main factor in joining Arsenal was meeting with Arsene Wenger and to hear what his plans were for me.

If I would have chose baseball, I think I would be missing the hell out of football a lot more. For me, I wish I could do both.

You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.