For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
No one in a normal walk of life flies into a new city unknown and unemployed and ends up doing their job on national television a few days later. I love the game, but it's crazy sometimes.
I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.
After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.
I swear to God, my career is like this weird origami thing.
Rodeo careers can end without warning, as quick as the next try at an eight-second ride.
When I say that I don't know what my next thing is, I don't. I'm just gonna read scripts, and if I see something that jumps out at me, I'm just gonna call my agents and say, "Please get me in so I can audition for this." You gotta sing for your supper. It never stops.
The NBA is a beautiful job in a lot of ways. But for living stability, thinking you're going to be somewhere for a long time, it's not for that.
A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.
An actor's life is pretty much like any profession, full of highs and lows; only because this is the glamour world - everything gets reported.
You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.
'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.
Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.
I've had a 'Zelig'-like career. I pop up unexpectedly. I'm always kind of around.
My career has been a bit strange. I don't think it took the normal route.
As a player, you're not really in control of your destiny and the way you make a living.
The very nature of acting is one minute you're up and the next you're down; one minute you're in favour and the next you're forgotten. You go away and you come back again.
I couldn't have ever married an actor. They have a childishness carried into an age when maturity should have set in.
My career path is like crazy paving - it goes all over the place.
I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.
I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.
It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
My career is just kind of crazy.
My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.
It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.
