Careers Quotes

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize.

Would you pull the lever for yourself, Ben Affleck? What has Barack Obama meant to your movie career, Ben?

Anybody that has a decent job or career has it because they love what they do.

The right don't have time off to go join protest marches as a career. The left has turned that into a bought-and-paid-for, rent-a-mob type activity.

Hillary Clinton ran the "Bimbo Eruptions Unit" with a woman named Betsey Wright. And in so doing, she preserved the Democrat Party, because she preserved the career of Bill Clinton.

If she [Hillary Clinton] had not stood by the guy at any point, that might have meant the end of his [Bill Clinton's] career.

Football is brutality. Football is career-ending, life-threatening injury just by stepping on the field.

Football is potential post-career suicide.

[Leftists] have all these embeds in their bureaucracy and in the judiciary. So even when they lose elections they have ample positions of power occupied by career invisibles.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

It's always marketeers building their own careers.

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

As my I guess, career's advancing, for lack of a better word, I'm becoming a lot more passionate for the jobs that I do. So, it becomes easier when you like what you do.

I have very high standards for myself and my career.

I feel like I'm at a point in my career where I'm looking for something else to sink my teeth into that's interesting to me, that I can do that I can feel like I'm turning another corner.

Every time I've gotten myself into trouble, it's because I'm choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.

My musical career was an accident.

I've had such an odd career.

I haven't had an orthodox career.

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that.

It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.

I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, "I would have done that a little different" because hindsight is 20/20.

You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

It's been a great honor for me to spend my career in public service.

I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film.

I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.

Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.

The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.

My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was looking at me, and I was floating off the ground. It was just euphoric.

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.

Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

Stem cells are like toenail clippings with a better career plan.

For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.