Career Quotes

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

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

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

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.

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

I'm happier in my career now than I've ever been.

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

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

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.

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.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.

Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.