Joe Morton Quotes

Most of my friends in London are musicians, but the ones in Scotland have proper jobs.

I'm not in a position where I can pick and choose. It's the other way around. The studios pick and choose.

Every year, it seems to be there are more people right out of college who are willing to jump into a start-up.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

I get offered work these days.

I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice.

There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.

There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.

My generation were all careerists.

I'm getting a bunch more face tattoos, because it doesn't look like I'm ever going to have to apply to a Walmart or Best Buy.

I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.

I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

I got an offer at 'Vogue.' And I desperately wanted to work in magazines. My interest wasn't in fashion, but when you get an offer right out of college for a magazine that big - I decided that it was probably better to start at a big name magazine, even if I wasn't necessarily fascinated with the subject.

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

It's either join the workforce or become a professional athlete, and I'd rather be a pro athlete.

You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.

There were definitely a few ways I could have gone after 'Totally Biased' ended. One of those was getting a job at Starbucks.

The fact is, there's a ton of opportunities out there now for professional wrestlers which, when I was coming through, weren't really there. The only game in town realistically was WWE, and it was very, very difficult to see yourself working anywhere outside of that.

As a player, you're not really in control of your destiny and the way you make a living.