I'm blessed to be able to say that at every juncture in my career, I succeeded.
I accomplished so many things, so early in my career.
I've never looked at - with the exception of little snippets - very much of anything I've done in the last 15, 20 years.
'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it.
What I have done in 'Company' can't be defined.
I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
I'm quite happy with the body of work that I've done, and I've done some really good work over the years that I'm proud of. I'm proud of some of the people that I've worked with, been lucky to have worked with.
On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career.
There is an idea that at some point in your career, you 'make it.' I understand the theory of 'making it.' I don't exactly think that it's the best way to look at it.
After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC.
If you can sustain a career over 40 years in this business, you've gotta consider yourself lucky.
It's an achievement I can be happy about - if you call getting old and still being in a job an achievement.
I was in NXT for six months, and it was some of the best times I've had in my career.
When I broke 20, I said to myself, 'I will give concerts until I'm approximately 30.' And I made it a year and a half late, but, nevertheless, that's what I did. When I broke 30, I said, 'I think I should be recording until I'm about 50.'
And I mean, I'm established. So I'm not worried about having a hit at this point in my career.
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.
I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.
I have been able to do a lot of great things during my career!
I long had a goal of becoming president of a company. But it was not till I was 57 years old that I became president of Cisco Systems with its 34 employees. Life offers opportunity at every stage.
I'm proud of what I've done in my career. I'm proud of what I've accomplished.
Once you look back on your career when it's over, you can say, 'This is what I achieved,' or, 'This is what I'm driving.'
I feel like I've grown up, not only at NBC, but also at 'Today.'
I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?
