Jerry Yang Quotes

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

I had a great ten years at Fox, but it's also been fun being a free agent.

I did modelling for five years, then I felt I wanted to do something different and challenging.

When work starts feeling too comfortable, fire yourself; go get another job.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

There is life after acting.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.

I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

I stopped acting, as I was not curious about it anymore. I was not passionate about acting.

For me, the most difficult move was when I chose to quit modelling and applied for a position of an assistant director.

I believe in career cycles and when one is close to ending you start to plan things. It's the moment for a change.

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.