Careers Quotes

I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.

The minute you feel like there's nothing left to learn, whether it's with your career or life, you're done.

My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.

You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.

I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.

I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.

Without question, dying on 'Lost' was the best thing I have ever done in my entire career.

I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma.

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.

To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.

Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what was once just a niggling problem has brought their careers to an end.

My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you're lucky.

At the beginning, I didn't see what Givenchy could give my career. It was like, "Okay, I'll do it for the money for a few years to help my mom and my sisters."

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

The truth will only be told over a career.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

It's a very beneficial experience for me that America has started to be interested in me. I get offers here, and I'm very open to having a new spring in my career here.

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.

You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.

I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.

What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.

There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.

I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.

I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.

Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.

The really good thing about my career is that I never went through a phase where I played characters who had names like "Partygoer," "Waiter," or "Guy #1."

[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career.

For me, the only type of guilty pleasure fun that I have in terms of my career is I act once in awhile. And I don't have any responsibility.

I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30