Professional Risks Quotes

I've been on the other end of sticky decisions, have been the 'B' side, but I never go in there thinking, 'Is this going to go against me?'

Every time someone makes a mistake, and mistakes are made in this business, careers are ruined.

I've seen young actresses have major falls from their career, and that's just not what I want.

These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.

I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.

Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.

Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.

I have to make a living, and I have been in a few films I wish I hadn't been in, but I don't know where things will lead me next, and that's exciting.

There are many commentators who have said the wrong thing before. That's part of the business.

Being a musician in Texas had its own set of risks.

My big fear is that I'll put down so many people, I'll have to leave show biz.

I think it's really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you're really in a dangerous spot.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

Anyone that chooses to be an actor or politician is making a choice to lead their life in the public eye.

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.

To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition.

I wanted to do something new and different. People expected me to do negative roles. I wanted to break the norm, and because of that, I lost on some great work as well.

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps that I shouldn't have, traditionally speaking. I paid the price for that. I was not as hire-able for a while. But then I just gave all that up.

I had suffered a multitude of injuries, as most guys in the business do. Most of them came at the end of my career.

Some people in the industry warned me that I'd ruin my career, miss out on possible jobs, and potentially put my life in danger if I ever came out.

I'm sure there have been missed opportunities, with films I've turned down that went on to be successful, but everyone in the industry has had that happen.