Careers Quotes

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I feel as though I've been very fortunate in my career, which is not all that long, so far.

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.

When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.

You know, life is long. My shooting career is long.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

I'm almost 40, so it's an awkward time in my career. You kind of hope it comes through and, if not, I'll be a waiter. Awesome.

I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world as my career.

This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said. "I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.

I think anybody starting any new career needs work.

I feel like everything great that's beginning to happen in my career started with the 'ink' Paste Magazine gave me!

My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

My career has always revolved around what I do and don't want my sisters and brothers seeing me doing

A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.

As a mentalist, perhaps only Orson Wells was in Jason's league. After a career in television, Randal has my endorsement. He's simply the best I've ever seen!

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can.

Roosevelt understands that there are things that are worth surrendering your career for, like defending the country against [Adolf] Hitler.

My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.

For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career.

I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.

Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

I'm learning that the times I felt the best about my life and career, I'm most like the water finding that path.

The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

I finished my career the way I wanted to.

It's tough to put into words right now, but I finished my career how I wanted to. Through the ups and downs of my career I've still been able to do everything that I've ever wanted to accomplish.

I don't want somebody sucking up to me because they think I am going to help their career. I want them sucking up to me because they genuinely love me.

I am always going to be a theater actor at heart. One of my career goals is to do "Shakespeare in the Park" someday but for now I am really excited to get working on another movie.

I'm probably better than I ever was in my career, as far as the mental aspect of the game.

A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.

Those that pulled my credential were actually doing me a favor. I was given a pass to leave an event that already had me feeling uneasy and uncomfortable in my career choice.

I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that.

I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me.

I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career.

There are many different ways that a military person's career can be translated.

I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.