Careers Quotes

Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.

I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.

I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and now, filmmaker. I've seen and experienced it all.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

It was early on when I was really focused and obsessed with doing The Tonight Show and Letterman and stuff like that. Then, I quickly realized that those things don't make or break a career.

Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way he harmonized and layered his guitar sounds.

Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne chance.

My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.

My career started slowly and then tapered off.

Every artist usually has one or two songs that really define their careers.

My career has kind of taken on a life of its own.

When you have a lot of hits and your career starts to go down, but then your music starts to slowly go up again.

I always want a challenge. My whole career has been based on trying to avoid female characters that don't get to do anything. And it's really hard to avoid those.

I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.

Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real.

Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.

I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.

The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in Parliament.

I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

Over the course of my career, I've had the great fortune of working with some incredible filmmakers who have protected me and inspired me and taught me what an honor it is to work in film.

No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn't see it until I saw it on film when I woke up!

I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't know where I'm going to take my career.

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

One of the inspiring things about Susan Sarandon career is that there's a quality of real fearlessness in it - you seem to be in it for the challenge and the experience.

I've had that my whole career. People were always hedging around the question of: Why are you so dark? What happened to you?

I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

In order to promote your own career, you need to promote the careers of others.

Marriage is a linchpin in many womens lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before going in with [Larry] Holmes. That would have made all the difference.

I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

I think I signed some contract, early on in my career, that I will only kiss Steve Carell when I do a movie.

You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career.

If I'm nominated [for Grammy] I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a great closing, for me, a great closing to a great career.

My success was also owed to career women who maybe had big legs or ample thighs, who felt well-protected by my fluid clothing that hid their flaws.

I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.

I played for nine different teams throughout my 22-year major league career and I loved every moment of every team.

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

I don't know where my career is going to lead me. I would like my career to be as diverse as possible. I've done theater and I've done music, and I would love to keep that in my life.

I'm lucky enough that, in my career, people think that attaching my name to something helps it a little bit.