Kirk Cameron Quotes

I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.

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

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

I don't want to regret anything in my career.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.

I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.

I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

I've come to realize your career is all about the choices you make. Every single one matters.

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

There's a lot to be said for women who want to focus primarily on acting. Other women, on the other hand, aspire to combine their work in acting with other ventures in fashion, business, directing, writing, producing, etc. It's a very personal decision.

I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked me then, that was one of the greatest jobs that had happened to me in terms of my career.

After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer.

I don't have any regrets in my career.

I don't want to plan my career. That would be a business plan. Filmmaking is not a business plan.

I don't want to take anything that's coming in for the sake of work. I want to choose carefully, as I have done since leaving 'EastEnders.'

With 'Lady Macbeth,' I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.