Tom Wlaschiha Quotes

After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.

My dad insisted I got a trade. He had a plumbing business. So you are looking at a qualified heating engineer.

If your route is that you are practically minded, and that is what presses your button, and you do an apprenticeship and you get a job that way, that is fantastic.

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal?

I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.

And I love having the job to go to every week. With movies, there's a lot of downtime. I like working, and television really does that.

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?

I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.

I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

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

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

You want a career. You don't want to do a couple of good films and then your career is over.

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.

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.

A man has to learn to be a Representative just as he must learn to be a blacksmith, a carpenter, a farmer, an engineer, a lawyer, or a doctor.

There are no employees without employers.

If you get your foot in the door doing one kind of part, that's the kind of role they call you for. I can't say I resent it - then I would resent my whole career.

We need to tell better stories of men and women who master a trade. We have to stop telling kids to blindly follow their passion and show them the opportunities that exist. That was the big, overarching message of 'Dirty Jobs.'

Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on.

I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.