Career Quotes
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I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.
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I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.
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I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.
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With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.
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I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.
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Jamie Foxx. He's been very much a mentor and friend, and we've worked together several times. He's just been such an influence in my career. There's nothing that man can't do, and that's something I would like to reflect in my career.
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I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.
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I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.
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I've been lucky and very fortunate over the course of my career, and I try to do something good for people every day.
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My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.
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Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
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I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.'
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I have never had a plan when it comes to my career: America came to me with an opportunity.
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To be stuck with that Kardashian label, that was so hurtful to me and to my career. I probably realized that too late - not that it would've affected my decisions in terms of who I dated, but it would've affected my decision to appear on the show.
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I started my political career facing lynch mobs.
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I played for a lot of teams in my career, and I check all their results every Saturday, or at least the ones who haven't gone bust. But it's always Hearts first. They're the club who've really seeped into me.
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I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.
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I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.
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Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.
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In terms of my career, it began in earnest when I was living in Boston. I started doing my own films, working initially as an editor and editing assistant - briefly - at WGBH, as an editor on other people's movies, trying to get some experience under my belt, but eventually just doing my own short films, doing them my way.
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I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'
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The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.
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Having worked with many of the world's top modeling agencies for the last decade, I've seen what works and doesn't work in managing a model's career.
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I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.
