Hugh Grant Quotes

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

After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

I'm always trying to look for different roles.

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.

You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

I had a career. His name was Ike.

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?

I really need to work. People think that I'm no longer interested in acting and only interested in working with the animals. Obviously I have given that impression, but it is not how I feel. I think I'm a good actor. I think I look OK. I don't understand why I'm not working all the time.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.