Career Quotes

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’

No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.

My approach to the races hasn’t changed in my 20-year career. If I have the chance to attack and to pass, I do it, trying to get the best possible result.

I mean, my music career and my acting career – if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it’s going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I’m hoping they’ll just go hand in hand.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it’s about other people.