Careers Quotes

I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.

In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

Never in my career have I got the support for what I'm doing, any more than I have on Fringe.

Suddenly it was gone. I'd lost more than my voice and my career. I'd lost my best friend.

The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.

Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.

I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career - how many tickets are sold.

The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.

I'm 44 now and have been working in comics for most of my adult life. I've been blessed to have had the career that I've had and worked with the many awesome creators I have.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.

My family is my career.

In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.

I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.

I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.

I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.

I haven't counted, obviously, but I reckon I've lost over a year and a half of my career through injury so far.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

'Dr. Quinn' came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.

I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.

I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

Running has been great for keeping me fit throughout my acting career.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents.

I'd like to extend my career a little bit into different genres.

I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.

I've been doing stand-up 29 years; there is no other career when you're finding your stride 30 years into it.

As far as in my career, I don't know what other form there is. I would love to do a talk show.

Jayne Mansfield is making a career of being a girl.

I think I'll Look back and go, 'That was a really good career move.'

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

I would have loved to have been two people, but I was determined not to devote my entire life to my career.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.