Careers Quotes

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

How could you not wanna be in Doctor Who at least once in your career?

Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

I have no particular career agenda.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.

An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.

I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.

Don Knotts left [Andy Griffith Show] to pursue a movie career, so once he was gone I left too.

George Lindsay who played Goober thought Andy Griffith Show limited his career.

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers."

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

When I was coming up, if you were on a TV show, that meant something was wrong with your career. Now it means something's right with your career.

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.

I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth.

I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.

The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.

Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.

I've done more than I thought I was ever going to do. I've had a very long and very satisfying career.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

In 1956 I was granted the biggest reward of my career: my wife, Josée Jongen.

Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.

I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.

I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs so he wouldn't go anywhere while I checked the computer... I certainly wasn't going to kill him. That's hardly going to do my career any good, is it?

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

Now, I've gotten to the point in my career, I'm 13 years in, to where I know that I'm funny. I know that I'm good at this.

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

I just want to be happy. I want to be happy and be able to finish my career in the right way.

Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.