Sandra Brown Quotes

Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

I've been very lucky, this is my 30th year on TV.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

There will be a time very shortly that I just might not be in front of the camera at all, and I might just be behind the scenes. I love doing television, though. I don't necessarily love being in front of the camera.

After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.

People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.

If I'm being honest, I think I'd be good at television; I just don't know if I am interested, because you are kind of geographically responsible to a location, and frankly I don't know if I retired from tennis so that I could sit around tennis tournaments 12 hours a day.

I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.

As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

I did nothing but theater until, I guess, '99. I was all the way through college the first time that I had stepped in front of a camera. And it's weird; it's definitely a transition.

I'm a talk-show host, I'm going to be a talk-show host.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

I was given a chance to try announcing, and it was a job that, in the end, I did not care for very much.

I was a writer before I was a wrestler when I was in the WWE.

For a long time, I thought, 'I'm not a TV presenter,' but now I realise there's no typical route into this business.

I'm nothing to do with the Conservative Party; I'm not a member of the Conservative Party. I stopped being a member shortly after I stopped being a member of Parliament and I took up a career as a broadcaster.

Modelling was never a career option for me; it was always a hobby. I was modelling while I was pursuing my B.Tech, so the obvious choice after finishing my studies was to do a job. But while I was modelling and doing TV commercials, I really loved being in front of the camera. I enjoyed the shooting process.

Doing a film and doing a TV show are poles apart. They are two different things, cannot be compared, but I enjoy doing both, as I love what I do.

I am looking at acting in a different way now. I always looked at it as equity to build the other things I was doing; now, I consider it a career.

Acting is something I always wanted to try after wrestling, and I felt like this was a perfect fit.

I'm a retired media executive.

If my career isn't moving ahead I may consider TV.