Dual Careers Quotes

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

I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.

I hope people will put aside Tom Ford the fashion designer and think about Tom Ford the filmmaker.

I've been an art collector since the Sixties, and I kept it very separate from my showbusiness career. I've had art shows since the early Nineties, a museum show that travelled to four countries. I've had three or four art books; it's just another way I have to tell stories.

Variety has always been in my mind: to do something totally different. I've had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track, the TV and film, the other, theatre, but they never crossed.

It's really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you're with - especially when you're both actors.

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.

I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.

In so many areas, when you think about it, you never really see an actor cross over to music. It always music to acting and it's receivable because when music gives a form of entertainment of art to where it's very personable, it's a passion, it's an intimate type of art to when you hear it, it's them.

I've always waitressed between roles. When 'Black Mirror' was on, I was still flipping burgers. Customers would recognise me while asking for extra ketchup, which was pretty embarrassing.

You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.

It's not the easiest thing to have two actors in a family.

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

We have so many different lives outside of the WWE, it's cool that people get to see all the different lifestyles and struggles we all have.

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

I want to have the same success in my acting career as I did in my boxing career.

I think the thing about acting and making music is that it's easy to do both. I'll shoot a movie for three months, and then I won't have to work for however long I want to. So, I can do a movie for a couple of months and then come and do music for a couple. But whatever's hot at the moment is what I'll gravitate toward.

I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more.

A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I'm in a rock band. The truth is that it's the other way around. I was trained as a classical musician and then started playing in a rock band later.

The acceptance of 'Quantico' so far has been really great. At the moment, I'm just straddling two continents far away from each other, with very active careers in both!

Deion Sanders played two sports, and Bo Jackson played two sports. I'm not athletic enough to do two sports, but I think I'm good enough to do two professions and do them pretty well at a high level.

I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.

I'm in control of things happening in my aviation career. And I'm not in my acting career.

I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.