Ron Stallworth Quotes

People ask me if I am thinking of retiring. Well, it doesn't occur to me. Different day, different challenge, different way. Lovely jubbly.

I'm one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you've got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges.

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

'ER' was an all-consuming universe, but I don't have a single regret. It gave me some of the greatest friendships I have and afforded me one of the rarest commodities in an actor's life, which is the financial security to pick and choose jobs for factors besides the paycheck.

I don't know how anyone could stop working.

Money wasn't the motivating factor in calling time on my international career and focusing on T20 cricket. If I was here to make as much money as I can, I would be playing 10 to 12 tournaments a year.

As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.

I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.

I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.

I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

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.

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.

I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.