Career Renewal Quotes

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

There's a point where you think, 'What else will I do if I don't do music?' It becomes your identity when it never should have been. But food ignited a fire in me, and I came right back to music because it no longer felt like a job. It was a really powerful thing for me.

I was in the family court for 25 years. And having started a second career, having a second act when you were 52 was something that I never thought would happen to me.

I think God must have had something in mind for me that was not on my radar when I first started out in New York. Back then, doing animated voices meant your career was done - it was looked down upon.

It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.

When 'Totally Biased' was canceled, I thought my career was over - but apparently it wasn't.

There are loads of kids out there who haven't got a clue what 'Men Behaving Badly' was; it was such a long time ago. So I'm able to spread my wings a little bit more. I was able to do it on stage over the years. Most directors and producers don't know who I am these days, anyway!

An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.

I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.

To be given a fresh start at a new club like Chelsea, it's unbelievable for me.

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

I never really thought that I was going to get out of coaching ever. In my fifth year, I thought I might get out. You have those thoughts in any job. But I never really, really thought I was going to get out.

When I'm not acting, I do like to take a year off at a time, at least if I can, just in order to keep acting exciting - otherwise I get bored very quickly.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

When my career hit rock-bottom in 2007 I decided to take a clean break.

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

Once we decided not to get pregnant, I snapped back into work mode, and now I have just been really enjoying my career.

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

When my career slowed, I knew deep down it wasn't over.

Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.

I really enjoy what I do. And if you want a lasting career, you have to work at it. Keep it current. Keep it fresh.

An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.