Careers Quotes

I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.

What I find really difficult is making career decisions.

I love doing what I do. I'm a born mentor. I've launched so many people's careers. I worked hard.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

I've moved on with my life and I'm trying to find a path to re-establish my career.

In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.

I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.

I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

For the amount of talent I had (and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke) I enjoyed a tremendous career.

One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.

I want to end my career on my terms, not on what people think I should do.

I did it my way, and I have no regrets when I look back on my career that it was just a big focus for me.

There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.

Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.

Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year.

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God.

I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

Some of our most successful businessmen in US grew up in orphanages. They were well treated, and they learned discipline. They learned right or wrong, and they have wonderful careers.

If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.

For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

I have had someone wonderful things happen to me during my career and lifetime. Of course, personally, the birth of my daughter is the highlight of my life.

I realize that acting is my job, and I have a life outside of my career to help keep me grounded. It is great to have a job you love!

I learn from everyone by observing traits that makes them successful and traits that bring them down, and try to incorporate only the best traits into my professional career.

I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

I've always been a very lucky guy. A lot of crazy things have happened in my career, but I guess the first big break was when I moved to Mexico City from Chihuahua.

I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

Right after Secretary [Rex] Tillerson was sworn in, four of the top career diplomats at the department were told their services were no longer needed.

[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread

If you intend on building a solid career, it's best to not worry about the major label approach. It's a trade-off that most true artists shouldn't have to make.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.

I would definitely like to continue my career in Hollywood, work hard and do my best.

I've had a great career in sports broadcasting - but I'm interested in lots of things. I like to write, I like to produce video projects, and I love to appear on stage.