Career Identity Quotes

First and foremost, I'm a real estate person. And that's what I love the most.

And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.

I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.

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

I really thought about being on one team for my entire career, and that was really important to me.

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.

Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

I'm a racing driver and I need to race, that's what I do.

I'm an engineer, not a politician.

If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.

No matter what I do for the rest of my career, I think I'll always be a Bulls guy.

It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

I don't know how to do anything else and lack any skill that would be applicable on a resume. Drag is what I know. The gigs are my life.

When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.

I'm a business person.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

I've never had a musical career. So I think it's been unaffected. I play the accordion. In terms of thinking of it as a musical career, I think it's sort of like calling yourself an astronaut because you have a shiny suit.

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

I think of myself as rarity in the business, and one of the reasons is that I wrestled my entire career as a baby face.

I am a woman of many talents and they're all just pieces of the puzzle that make me and make my career.

I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.

My whole career, I was pretty much bald. So, people just got to know me as being a bald guy.