Jean Simmons Quotes

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

Jean Simmons

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Strategy

• In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Friends
  • Career

• I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Career
  • Start

• I have never broken a contract in my career.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Never
  • Broken

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Career
  • Successful
  • Fame

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Love
  • History
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Help

• As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Winning

• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Think
  • Career
  • Interesting

• The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.'

  

  Clive Owen
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Advice

• This career is a relentless hustle because Hollywood is crowded with too many smart, talented people pursuing the same dream and the same pool of entertainment investment dollars. And unlike in law or medicine, there are no college degrees required - no barriers to entry.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • People
  • Career
  • Dream

• I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle for a girl to find meaning outside of the romance plot.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Struggle

• I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

  

  Aubrey McClendon
  • Business

• There's less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops.

  

  Mikey Way My Chemical Romance
  • People
  • World
  • Violence

• My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

  

  Jean Simmons
  • Career