Career Quotes

I've made a career of being precise.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the center of attention. But I had a dream of being an actor. I went to NYU and studied theatre. I learned a craft. And began my career straight out of college.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

Obviously, I'm at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I'm 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you're a prospect. And that's what I am right now in Europe. I'm a prospect. I'm not a seasoned veteran.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

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

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

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today.

Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.

If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

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.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

My life and career is my own adventure.

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

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.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in.

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.