Sheamus Quotes

Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

I always keep thinking, 'The next role - that's going to be the one that's really going to define me and show them all. I'll transform and disappear, and it will be a revelation.'

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.

Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.

Don't just view me as an actor.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don't want to just be known for being involved in 'Playboy,' or having been Hugh Hefner's girlfriend - I hate that. I like to show I can do other things and take on other challenges. That's my main motivation.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of their own imagination.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

I don't need much of a character in my life. I've already got one; my family knows who I am, and I don't have a reason to make an impression on the world around me unless it's in a professional context. Acting is not a personal experience; it's a job.

I don't want my title to define my character. I don't think, as a president, I will change.