Pastoral Resources

I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

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 don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

My career has always revolved around what I do and don't want my sisters and brothers seeing me doing.

Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.