Bernard Sumner Quotes

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

I believe in career cycles and when one is close to ending you start to plan things. It's the moment for a change.

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

The different parts of my career seemed to take part in different rooms, albeit in the same house. It was just the way things were and I didn't actually think much about it at the time.

The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

My government career is over.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.

I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'

I think I have grown impatient with just being a writer.

Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.

My career has taken so many directions.

I do not think my career is over after being at Real Madrid.

I thought 2013 was the end of my coaching career.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

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.

My career has been my craziest adventure.