Careers Quotes

If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.

I'm not in a position in my career where I turn things down. I'm very easy. So the projects often dictate the direction you will go in. I welcome things that challenge me.

Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.

It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.

Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.

I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.

Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It's fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers.

I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.

The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, Remember, it's all about likeability.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

I don't know about one moment that has pivoted my career. I do know that one thing that hit me and made me take a few steps back was a year at Steamboat.

My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.

I never had any idea that I would have a career quite honestly. You never really have any idea what is going to happen. You have an idea of what you would like to happen.

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

A congressman from Texas sent out a tweet comparing President Obama to Hitler. That is ridiculous because at this point in his career Hitler had a much higher approval rating.

Im a songwriter and Id love to make that a part of my career.

I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!

I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.

Lance Armstrong admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career. He confessed in front of the most respected judge in the land, Oprah Winfrey.

If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?

I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.

It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.

Hopefully, my teammates will say that I was important and that I gave it everything and I didn't leave anything to chance my whole career. To be mentioned as Hall-worthy is a great thing.

There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.

All actors have their own unique path when it comes to the development of their training and careers.

You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.

Potter for me is something that's been giving me these amazing opportunities to start a career and learn while I'm doing, which is the best way to learn.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

My life and career is my own adventure.

I expect to make a career out of country music.

My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.

My family's great and everybody's happy and healthy and my career is good. But personally, I had to sacrifice a lot in my own personal life. And I regret that.

I mean, 'Kids In The Hall' is the reason I have any career at all.

I try not to look back on my career.

I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.

To play with Zinedine Zidane was the biggest honour I have had in my career...

I'm not a movie-based person, in terms of how it affects my career, the industry. I don't care about that. I probably haven't been too smart about that.