Career Delay Quotes

At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very late. So I've got time, right? As long as I stay healthy and eat right.

When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.

I just feel so upset when I think of all the lost years when I could have been doing stand-up gigs.

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.

I guess at the age of 15 was the first time I made a goal of wanting to be on television, and I didn't get a series until I was 23, which was 'The West Wing.'

I was never an actress in high school. I didn't start acting until I was in my twenties. I was just a funny cheerleader. I hadn't even seen a show until I was in my twenties, so I was very late getting into the business.

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

I didn't really get any success till I was 30 years old. I played music when I was young fella, but I didn't really get any success till I was about 30 years old.

I've put my degree on hold, but I will finish it.

I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

If you don't start your career until thirty, that still gives you thirty-five years to make it professionally. If you can't make it in thirty-five years, you weren't going to make it in forty or forty-five.

I felt like my career started late, and I think it was because of my height - and maybe some of my confidence issues.

I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.

'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29.

I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.

I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40.

Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while to build credits and, because of that, it's not the kind of career you can jump into in your 40s or 50s. The ship sets sail by then.

I'd love a racing career, but as I didn't start until I was 28 I missed years of experience.

My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'

Millennials are a very interesting generation for a lot of reasons. They're absolutely adorable, but they have some significant challenges. Their lives and their careers are delayed by about 10 years, partly because of the recession, also because of technology and also because of the way that they approach things.

I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.