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

I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, Ill get to pursue them.

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

I have been driven demented in my career.

The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.

I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.

I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

I visualise what I want through meditation. The process of meditating is a great way of making sure I have my priorities sorted. It's not about money - I focus on my career and the kind of film projects I want to do. Film-making is a passion for me, and my mantra is that you should do what you love, and the money will follow.

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

Um, I think every role, whether in TV or film, has a part in building a career and relationships.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, its the best job in the world.

I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.

I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too.

I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.

I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.

If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here.

I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.

Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

I expect to make a career out of country music.

I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.

The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on The Big C has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so shes warned me what to expect.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.

Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

I treat my career like it just happened yesterday.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

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 spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate that in general. But you know, like any job, a job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.

I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... Im a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

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

I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.

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

Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.

A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.

I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.

I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.

Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

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

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important

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

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I've had my share of injuries throughout my career. It's humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I've been hurt, I've learned from that injury and come back even more humble.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

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 come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with 'Lost in Translation' and 'Rushmore.' I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great.

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.