Simon Mainwaring Quotes

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

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.

I make a good living doing what I do.

At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting a job or keeping it depends as much on how well one reasons as how well one uses his hands.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

All I was looking for is to be successful. I had the opportunity with Australia, with what it provided for me economically.

For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving.

Even though I'm already successful and have a career, it is always good to have your eggs in more than one basket.

I used to say if there was anything I would really want to have as I kind of get older in my career, it would be wonderful to have relevance to somebody in some way so that I could continue to work on some level.

I like to do enough work to keep myself sharp and relevant without trying to be trendy.

In my early twenties, I got the basics covered. In retrospect, one of the great things about success is that I never really had to work in a factory full-time. So that's a blessing.

For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.

LinkedIn allows professionals, including the middle class, to invest in themselves in order to find the right jobs. That essentially can help make them prosperous.

I know that I'm in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!

Sleeping on people's floors when you're 22 is fine. But when you get your life in order and have a family you want to keep and a certain level of health, touring bigger means you can keep going for longer.

I don't want to be like those guys that, two or three years into their contract, they do really good, and then they don't care.

The business has been good to me.

Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.

I'm very happy, safe, and secure with television industry. I'm not over-ambitious.

For my family, for my loved ones, my priority is to have a job and perform.

I would love to go to college because you never know what is going to happen with your career, and you always want something to fall back on.