Careers Quotations | Page 7

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

What I want out of my career is just to work.

It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.

I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body.

And people are always saying: 'Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a TV series, and then you can do anything you want. Because then you've got the clout.' That had always sounded like a lot of hooey to me, but now I think it's true, unfortunately.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

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

In all my career, in my ups and downs, I've never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed

I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too.

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.

There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.

In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.

I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.

When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Hopefully, my teammates will say that I was important and that I gave it everything and I didn't leave anything to chance my whole career. To be mentioned as Hall-worthy is a great thing.

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.

My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.

Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised.

When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.

In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.

Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.

Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show

My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs.

I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

My whole career - I have been really lucky.

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important

I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.

I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.

I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.