Johnny Lee Quotes

It made my career. I mean I'd had a few charted songs before, but when Urban Cowboy came out, hell, I got my first gold record, my first gold album, got a triple platinum album, a platinum album... It catapulted my career to what it has been for the last 35 years.

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• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Music
  • Help
  • Career

• The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Time
  • Career
  • House

• 'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Career
  • Respect
  • Honor

• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Long
  • Career

• 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 never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Career
  • Know
  • Doing

• I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Think
  • Career
  • Me

• Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Career
  • Me
  • Proud

• I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Today
  • Career
  • Hate

• The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Children
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Action

• I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Age
  • Career
  • Growing

• I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Career
  • Interesting
  • Perfect

• Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your career. You might have to look for more than one passion. Some passions may afford a career and some may not.

  

  Larry Smith
  • May
  • Career
  • Passion

• Because my career has been based so much on my looks, when I finally pass my 'sell-by' date, I think I'll probably pack it in. Unless I make the changeover into playing witches or something, I don't see what career I can have.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Think
  • Career
  • See

• My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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  • Career
  • Hate

• When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • History
  • Period

• People do not necessarily reveal what is going on - only bad actors do.

  

  Martin Landau
  • People
  • Bad

• There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Long
  • Achieve
  • Determined

• I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.

  

  Kesha
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• It made my career. I mean I'd had a few charted songs before, but when Urban Cowboy came out, hell, I got my first gold record, my first gold album, got a triple platinum album, a platinum album... It catapulted my career to what it has been for the last 35 years.

  

  Johnny Lee
  • Career
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