Career journey Quotes

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

My WWE career has been amazing. It took a lot of time for me to get here, and you never stop paying your dues.

A lot of people, when they see my career, they hear or remember, 'Sat on the bench four years in college, got cut by the Packers, worked in a grocery store, and then won the Super Bowl.' That's kind of the timeline the people see when they hear 'Kurt Warner.'

In the earlier years of my career, I made my own attempts to fit in and be accepted as one of the tribe of Sand Hill Road guys.

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

At the beginning of my career, I worked for a lot of people who nobody knew, who have come up to be people that everybody knows.

I didn't go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.

How do you capture the drama of a Rembrandt painting in a movie? How do you feel that moment that they captured in two hours? I kind of fell into it and at one point, I decided I wanted to live an art life; I wanted to tell stories. I came to New York, and did what most people do - you become a PA and run and get coffee and pay your dues and learn until your opportunity comes.

I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.

Man, it was a great ride back in the day. Obviously, I started out in WCW, and I was a good mechanic back in the day. Got fired from that gig, made a turn for ECW.

Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.

My family have always been supportive of my career, whether it's the highs of the World Cup or when I was just starting out.

I'm delighted with how my career unfolded.

After university, I set out to see if I could make a career in music. It was a tough journey at first, but by the time I was 23 I'd been signed by A&M Records.

I've never looked at - with the exception of little snippets - very much of anything I've done in the last 15, 20 years.

I never planned on being a plumber.

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

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

I'd just thank the people out there who have been with my up-and-down, weird-road, strange career and supported me and stuck with me all these years. I mean, they're my boss. That's what keeps me working.

I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.

With the way my career has gone, I've had ups and downs, and I'm thankful for going through what I've gone through because now I'm a stronger person.

In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.

It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

You have to go through bad days to get to the great days you have in your career.