When you label someone 'up and coming' or 'the new breakout,' there's this kind of expectation. And I think, like I said before, it's very hard to live up to that expectation when you really don't have that much power as an actor - in terms of your career path and the timing.
Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.
I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.
As your career goes on, you get to flex your brain a little more and play characters that are stronger and more intelligent.
I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.
I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.
Every time I try to tell people things about my career, I wonder if that's the truth or something I'm fantasizing about.
It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.
I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.
My family and I built my whole career from scratch.
I've always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective.
The fans know and the Cardinals know that I want to be a Cardinal for my whole career. I love this city. The way that this city has embraced me and my family.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was a challenge as I began my school career - spelling and reading was something I couldn't really get my head around.
When I just started my career, of course, I always try to look very good, and I changes the dress all the time on the performance. And people came to me and said, 'Oh, beautiful dress. Your dress is so beautiful, and you look so beautiful.' That's it. And I was so upset nobody saying anything about my singing.
I am humbled by the opportunity to serve the people of West Tennessee, but I never intended to become a career politician.
When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today.
The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.
In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.
My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
The thing early on that you think is 'wrong' with you, that makes you not fit in with everyone else, becomes the key to your career as an actor. Start embracing it.
Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.
An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.
Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.
I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.
At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces.
I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence.
I'd be plenty happy if I could keep playing scientists and cops for the rest of my career.
I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family.
I honestly never thought in my career I was going to do a body-switching movie.
I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.
It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.
'Doctor Who' is one of those things that stays with you throughout your career, and I'm very happy with that.
After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.
What I find relatively funny is that I'm not a model. I'm five foot six and a half; I have absolutely no dream or desire to be a model, I don't live for fashion. But when an opportunity comes your way very early in your career, like Burberry, you do it.
My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the people. My magic lies, my people ties, this is what I want to do. I'm in it to win, I cant give in, I can't give up and I cant quit. Victory is mine. Working together works.
