Aidan Quinn Quotes

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

'Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life.

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

I don't think I've necessarily been able to pick and choose in my career; I don't know how many people do. But I'll tell you what I've been able to do: I've been able to say no. It is the only thing you can hold on to sometimes, is that ability to say 'no.' And I think that in that way, you can create some kind of career.

When you get to a point where you're successful enough that you can say, 'I don't have to take any job anymore,' and you're still good at what you do, how do you decide what work to take on? I think the answer is that you pursue what you enjoy. In my case, it's variety.

My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like.

I have no difficulty with career duality!

I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I can go and do it.

Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible.

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

I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a 'career builder.' I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with 'Caprica,' the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.

I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political business side. It's ruled my life. Ratings or no ratings have decided where I live, who I work with, and how long I'll be doing that particular job.

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.