Careers Quotes

I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.

I love 'Wild 'N Out' so much - one, because it's my baby, but also I get to see others succeed and go on to lead their own careers.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

People want to consume what you're putting out there, and you can create a really strong following of fans and admirers, and people who are invested in your career and your comedy.

Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner are the funniest dudes ever, and they have great careers on their own. They made great art in the '90s, and they still have dinner three times a week.

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

A career in acting, it's a learning process.

Yeah we shine, gold cluster. As for your career? Dead, Ghost Busters.

I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

Mark my words, my rap career [is] on the rise.

A lower-paying job can still help you advance your career.

I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyers mentality.

I don't think anyone expected me to get the BAFTA. The bookies didn't have me down. It's definitely made a huge difference in my career, but I don't dwell on it.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

I think if you do not enjoy your time, your life, if you do not live intensely and do not spend time with your family, in one way or another it will be reflected in your career.

I understand that the results I've had in my career, or I'm having now, they are very good. And that gives me confidence, of course, but I do not feel invincible.

If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life.

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.

Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers.

Acting careers are very interesting things. They come with a lot of ups and downs. You just have to ride the waves and bide your time during the lulls, and enjoy the high times when they're there.

I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have.

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I am the first one to admit I was a novelty.

I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.

People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

I started my career off replacing Rita Moreno in a Broadway show.

I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

At some point in my career, I was thinking, "Why am I not a star? Why am I not Brad Pitt? Why am I not Tom Cruise?"

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.

As your career progresses, you hope that you get some more opportunity, or some more choice.

I'm patient when it comes to my career, which is unlike me, but there are no stars in my eyes.

I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.

I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful.

I'm a very, very proud Canadian, and having the privilege to represent my country on the international level was the highlight of my 18-year career.

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons together.