Career Misconception Quotes

I think a lot of people confuse what we do with fame or wanting fame... which is not necessarily true.

People think that because I was at Liverpool for such a long time - in a period where the club was very successful - that it was bliss all the way.

A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn't like your music, or you've been dropped. It has to something negative. It's not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses.

I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.

When I started acting, I didn't think of it as a career. I always thought Hollywood was this magical world where a fairy came down and said, 'Come live with the Munchkins; you are now one of us.' I didn't understand the concept of it as a career. I thought I would save up enough money to go to college.

I saw myself as a trailblazer in the 1980s as a female lawyer in the City. It was exciting, as women were outnumbered by men five to one. But while I had this sense of trailblazing, in reality, I wasn't pushing boundaries; it was just a personal myth I'd created, as I was doing a job I wasn't enjoying.

Definitely the biggest misconception is that it is overly burdensome to be a woman and pursue this line of work. But being a woman gives me a unique perspective and style, which is probably why I get the work that I do.

Why do we have to pretend we're not in the sales game? I didn't sign on to be a salesman. I signed on to be an actor.

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done.

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what's happened now.

The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.

I've never been a model; that's a misconception about me, and I don't know where it came from.

I've never thought of acting as rocket science - you put on the costume, get your hair cut, and that's it, really.

Why would you want to work in television. I don’t watch television.

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

To some people, being in the business only starts when you're in the WWE. So I guess for those people, I'm kind of an overnight sensation.

Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

One of the great ironies of my career is that people imagine me as some sort of hardcore metal guy because of the Metallica film.