Career Quotes

I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business.

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.

The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.

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

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.

I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.

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.

Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.