P. J. Tucker Quotes

I just want to take the time to think about what I've achieved in my career so far, where I need to go, and what I need to do to get better as a player.

It's always difficult to say if anyone is in the best form of their career.

I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It's a sign of potential trouble. No matter how talented you are, if you don't really want to work at TOMS, you'll never work out here.

I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

When you want a raise, you're not only going in saying: 'I want more money.' You're going in and saying: 'Here's what I want out of my career. Here's what I accomplished. Here's what I said I was going to do. Here's what I've done. Not only do I deserve more money, but I want to get to here on my career.'

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I've grown as a writer.

Maybe I've had a sheltered life and career, but I have so many role models to look up to. It's normal that I would strive to build my own career.

I tried to really look at what's best for my career, what's best for my life, what's best for my family, for me.

I am interested in what I earn; I am interested in my growth.

I'm not stupid: if I have not been a starter with Ancelotti, Benitez and Zidane, it's my fault.

I think throughout your whole career a player can improve.

I first came up under Joe Royle and when Keegan took over it was even better for me because I felt his style added more to my game.

It was a hard decision to leave Norwich, and you have to take into account a lot of things - could I make the step up? Do I want to have another season of really showing what I can do?