Career Quotes

I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right.

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career.

All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.

The only way I'd have gone was if it would better my career, I would not have gone just for the money. The point was to go to a club that could win trophies.

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.

I started my career without fans.

I love it, but it's not important to me to always be thought of as sexy. I like it when it doesn't limit my career. It's a part of my life, but on a secondary plane.

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

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.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.