Dual Career Quotes

I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was my side gig while I acted.

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again.

I started out as a musician. Although I always wanted to have a dual career, I fell into the TV and movie business more strongly and more quickly.

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.

I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.

My film career was always to support my theater career.

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Really, it was either fight in the UFC or fight in the WWE. There wasn't the option of both. That was a key factor. What am I going to do? I didn't want to juggle two careers anyway.

I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I wanted to have a dual career. I wanted to be an actor, and I also at that time wanted to be a rock star.

It's a strange old thing, but I think an awful lot of 'Inbetweeners' fans still don't realise I'm a stand-up.

I did a little bit of acting - some guest spots here and there. I got a job working as a therapist doing individual and group crisis intervention and family therapy. I did that for two years. I left to do 'Boston Legal.' So my psychology career has been interwoven into my acting career, and it's my safety net and fallback.

I'm a writer first and a singer second.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.

I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

And I don’t want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn’t have built the confidence to do acting if I didn’t model.

I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.

I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.

...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me in the direction of spiritual activity...And then it was disclosed to me that I could do both spiritual and musical work. So for five years I executed that contract, and when it was finished, after I made the album Transfiguration, I didn't make another album until twenty-six years later. This new album, Translinear Light, came out of the pleading and constant appealing from my son Ravi Coltrane: 'Ma, please make a CD.' So I eventually agreed.