Chris Hughton Quotes

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.

I don't think I could last in anything for 10 years doing a character.

Six years of your life is a long time to do anything, and especially in this business, where you get so used to being nomadic and moving on to different jobs.

I went through five different coaching changes at Fulham.

It's a very different feeling to work on a show with a future.

I don't want to be jumping from team to team.

I could very well see myself ending my professional career at Kaiserslautern.

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

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about. And yet I did that most every year. I've done a lot of failed pilots.

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself.

Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.