Careers Quotes

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I believe at the end of my career I'll be retired into the recurring character hall of fame.

I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar.

I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.

I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I need my career. That's what validates me.

Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.

I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction.

I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career.

And you know something, because everything that I've gotten - my career, my money, my family; everything that I've gotten and achieved is because of California.

I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on.

When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody.

You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.

The greatest development after age 21 was shown by Steinitz, who increased his rating by more than a full class interval. Steinitz was the deep student and fierce competitor to the end of his career.

At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.

I had a career before the Stern show, on Mad TV. I was on the first two seasons of that and I got kicked off it because of possession of cocaine.

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

I've been very fortunate in my career.

I want to buy my mom a house; I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it.

Steven Tyler is awesome. He is so humble. He's really sweet and coming from him and his career, it's amazing.

Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

I love that my career has been documented and I can look back one day and share it with my kids.

It seemed Abe Vigoda's career was done until he was pronounced dead in print.

I don't want to think my life as a career.

As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been.

I really don't have a specific idea of where I want my career to go, I just have an idea of wanting to continue to work and work on things that I like and think are good.

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.