Quotes about Career

If I make it in the NBA or wind up playing overseas, I will be at peace.

If I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.

I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the 'Late Night' show, when I first got out to Los Angeles to be a television writer, the first thing I did was I signed up to take improvisational classes... And I studied that for years, and I really loved it.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.

Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career

I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

You have to keep asking yourself if the way you're working today is the way you'd want to work in 10, 20, or 30 years. If not, now is the time to make a change, not "later.