Career Limitation Quotes

I wish I'd done better for England. I only played three Tests and three One Day internationals. You have to take your chances and, for whatever reason, I didn't.

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

If I tried to do comedy for the rest of my career, I would not be very successful.

I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.

My proudest moment was the number 'Reviewing the Situation.' I suspect that, because I gave my all to the role and because I was working with such a fine team of people, it inhibited my future career.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified.

I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.

If you do one big commercial film and it's a hit, everybody takes you for that particular kind of a role.

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.

Gone are the days in America where we're able to graduate from High School and perhaps eventually get a job that pays $100,000, that barrier has been put up. If you want to work at McDonald's, where is your degree?

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.

I am a footballer. I know how to play football, and I know how to manage projects in the area of football. This is what I want to limit myself to.

I had never made any plans beyond basketball.

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

Preki quite literally only has the one foot

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

Somehow, I knew you had to have perfect eyesight to be a test pilot, and so that was it for my astronaut career.

If you were in Clint Eastwood movies, you were in the Clint Eastwood movie business. You weren't in the movie business. You weren't part of Hollywood. This became clear early on; people stopped calling. They automatically assumed I was working exclusively with Clint.

Every time I try to move forward, somebody brings up 'Fresh Prince.' Every time I walk into a room or make a phone call, somebody brings up 'Fresh Prince.'

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.

Is typecasting really a problem?

There are worse things than getting pigeonholed in Hollywood.