Career Priorities Quotes

When a woman gets to 30, you ask her about having kids. I don't mind - all my friends are settled with kids, so I can understand people asking, and I even get it from relatives, but I'd be a fool to miss these work opportunities. And there's no time limit. One day I'll find my prince, but at the minute, I'm enjoying kissing a few frogs.

I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.

I could be a model for one night. But I'm also a professional soccer player, and I like to be taken seriously on the field.

Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'

Every day, I'm working on my aviation career so that I don't have to think about working as an actor.

It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life.

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

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

Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point.

When I am offered a film, I don't ask whether I will be singing any of the movie's tracks.

I wasn't interested in having children of my own. I know what would have happened - I'd have been left at home to look after the kids, and my career would have been over while my husband travelled the world.

I've said it from the very beginning: Fighting the best guys in the world doesn't pay as good as the circus. I want to join the circus. I'm trying to get that circus money.

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

I wasn't really interested in doing anything except going from pilot season to pilot season and sowing my oats in the months between and telling my agency to stop sending me movie scripts, because they'd pile up in my house and make me feel guilty because I had to read them.

I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.

I haven't had time to think about a relationship! I literally have not had a boyfriend in almost five years. I've never even hooked up with anybody I've worked on a movie with.

My mom always worked, and I certainly don't want to look back and think, 'Well, I don't have kids, but I'm glad I did that sitcom.'

I've been so involved with TV shows, I've been unavailable for films, which is my dream.

I've sort of made up my mind that I have to do my career and I have to be a mother. These are my two responsibilities; of course the baby comes first.

I love working in Dublin, but when I'm in London, I'm more focused on my career.

My film career was always to support my theater career.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

I just never had time to follow sports. When you're working as often as I was, eight shows a week, you just don't have time to develop interests outside of the theatre.

Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?

It's not my business to think about the business; it's my business to think about the character. Sure, there have been times in my career where I wished I was more popular or more this or more that - but that's just stupid.