Colin Baker Quotes

If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a character. I'm just not that precious.

There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work.

I got 'slotted' and started getting offers similar to the role I had in 'Maryada.'

Be willing to take on career risks.

I worry that I would actually hurt my career doing something I didn't enjoy.

At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.

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

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

In your career, you must be so careful; otherwise, you get caught in a particular image, and it's hard to break.

I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

Work changes over time, as you change and the world changes.

Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.