Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.
What I enjoy the most about all this is the traveling. I love that my job allows me to travel all over the world.
Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.
The doctor gets you when you're born, The preacher, when you marry, And the lawyer lurks with costly clerks If too much on you carry. Professional men, they have no cares; Whatever happens, they get theirs.
That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.
How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
Someone actually asked me once if I used coming out as a publicity stunt. It's cool that we live in a time when being gay could be seen as helping your career.
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.
Having anything to do with a hit film is great. Even if you're a third assistant to the director or second to the editor, if the film does well, every technician, every actor benefits from it.
One of the great things about being a professional football player is visiting countries and seeing cultures you might never see.
You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.
I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
I joined 'Hollyoaks' because in the long-term, I thought it's good money, it's good profile, and everything happens in soaps!
No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lots of neat people, and you get to do cool things. If I had to say something negative, it's that there's often a whole lot of travel that takes me away from my children. That can be a bummer a lot of times.
One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.
One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
I think associate director jobs are the best in the world, because you can do what you want and not have to take responsibility for it!
In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
My life as a professional athlete has allowed me the opportunity to visit and live in many different places and meet many interesting and diverse people.
Through Twitter, I've got a writing career and a directing career, as well as hundreds of other beneficial things that have happened to me. I love it.
People talk about the Ozzfest and what it can do for your career, and I guess I'm just oblivious to it.
I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that has come a book deal, and I think it certainly contributes to people's view of me as a person with a sense of humor, which is only helpful in my industry.
The great thing about being on a television show is that it usually provides you with fairly steady income so you can go and do things.
One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.
