Steve Largent Quotes

I've hit a point where my big luxury is getting to work on the things I want to work on. That's my hobby. It's being able to do a movie like 'Chef,' where you don't get paid, where you get paid scale, but you get to do exactly the movie you want to do. To me, that's worth more to me than whatever money I would have gotten paid.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm proud of, and I'm all those things. It's great.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a career in the private sector and I didn't have a family, that I do have some tendencies where I could really kind of have a monastic existence and be okay with it.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.

I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.

I turn down really well-paid shows all over the world because I want to spend more time with my wife and myself.

I will never risk my wellbeing for my career and it's always worked out well for me and led me to the right places.

I've made a lot of money, I'm happy where I'm at. I've got a good family - I don't really need to play football.

I can go years without going to Los Angeles, but I think my living in Brooklyn is critical to my continuing to have a fairly happy life in the film industry.

For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.

I have always enjoyed my work and have chosen only what I thought was interesting by way of a role.

Everyone wants to do only those films which they find interesting. That is the way the industry works.

People don't think of me as Glenn Kelman; they think of me as the real estate guy. If I wasn't interested in real estate, that would be pretty tragic, wouldn't it?

Hey, I'm not rich, but I'm lucky. I get to do what I want to do. That's not an easy thing to do in this country.

Destiny has put me in the profession that has kept me happy, and where I was supposed to be.

I'm really happy here, playing in L.A. I want to be here.

If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

I wouldn't change anything about my career. I don't need my legacy to be anything.

As long as I get to do the kind of work I want to do, I am okay with being a Z-lister.

Many times, you have to sacrifice the paycheck for doing what you love.

Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I enjoyed being a surgeon and I now enjoy being an academic and having a media career.