Peter Hambleton Quotes

I never thought I would start working again, and I did, but it was really hard, and I don't know that I would advise anyone to step back the way I did.

Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'

Some players have to change their game in their careers. I did, and I like it.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

When I had Mason, I was really ready to leave the business of acting, but still wanted to do work that I could control.

I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low.

I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.

After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.

Women need to understand that it is possible to stay in the workforce. A lot of women decide to take a back seat in their professional careers even before they are pregnant or are ready to have children.

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

I just decided to take some time off. I've been modeling since '93, '92, and that's a pretty long time. I'm a single mother and I chose to focus on her.

For me, working is the ultimate vacation, for lack of a better word. Its being in-between jobs were it becomes emotional, and brutal, and draining.

I never really thought that I was going to get out of coaching ever. In my fifth year, I thought I might get out. You have those thoughts in any job. But I never really, really thought I was going to get out.

As an actor, you know every job you have is going to end someday. That's not so much different than the rest of the world; we just don't have illusions about it.

People in academia and industry are not accustomed to people who have long lapses in their careers.

After I left the 'Daily Show,' I was kind of sitting out for five years. I know what it's like to not be able to have that platform for my voice the way I want it.