Neal Adams Quotes

Getting the chance at 40 to make up stories that other people would draw and other people would then read is pretty weird.

My career path is the weirdest thing. I was a hairdresser, I worked at Marvel for a few months, and then I was signed to a DC exclusive for eight years.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

'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.

Long time ago, I was going to be a New York cop, then got involved with this girl who was into acting, then got bit by the acting bug myself.

There is life after acting.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

Acting has always been a strong force in my life, but it was hard to change direction. I didn't make a paycheck for two years.

I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'

I talked to a lot of people that switched careers. Not necessarily to acting, but switched jobs. The 'becoming a student again' is the thing that always kept coming up.

I never had an amateur career; I didn't go to college in America; when I came out on tour nobody knew who I was.

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job.

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

Right after college, I participated in the Miss India contest and then went on to pursue modelling, as that seemed like the logical next step. But pretty soon, I started to feel stagnant in that profession.

When I was about to enroll for my third year of college, I ended up dropping out and moving to Nashville.

I never wanted to be an actor, and then 'GH' was the first time where my managers were like, 'Quit your day job. You got a thing.'

I never expected to make the videos a full-time job. I thought I would continue to work as a freelance Web designer and just do the videos for fun. But the audience built so quickly that it became full-time.

I ended up making my name at Marvel, but I've always desired greater access to the DCU characters. Bottom line: I'm a huge fan.

When I was in my third tour in Afghanistan, I was shot down. I was injured to the point where I couldn't fly anymore, so I looked into what ground jobs I could do that fulfilled me as an adrenaline junkie and, more importantly, utilized my experience.

I've had several different careers.

I'm not going to broadcast forever. I'll probably want to do something else in basketball, which will probably be running a team or at least helping run a team.

I had left my career to join the party. But now it has become difficult for me to continue and so I resign from its primary membership.

We used to say when we were 20 years old, that when you reach 30, you gotta hang up your guitar and get a real job.