Career Quotes
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I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.
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My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.
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I think America did a great job. I think Carrie Underwood fits the bill of American Idol. She's a wonderful girl, and she's gonna have a great career.
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I can't really speak for the guys, but for me, I think I want a build a longer-term career and I feel like we've been really fortunate to have some big success with a few things, but I want smaller success with more things.
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The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.
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I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone.
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Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?
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I've been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really long.
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The tension in pro ball comes from the realization that any game could be your last, that an injury could end your career. And in TV, you never know if or when your series will be canceled.
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I'm a writer and a feminist of color, and I've written complex, powerful women for my entire career. I'm just one voice, but there are many others like me.
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Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.
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When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.
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When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.
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I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.
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In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.
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I never felt my career was going backwards.
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If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.
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That was probably the highlight of my career. I learned more from him my first few years than probably I have from any individual through my career.
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Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.
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Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.
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No matter what your career aspirations are, you should begin by thinking carefully about why you are engaging in any activity and what you can expect to get out of it.
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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
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There are a lot of people who dream of overnight success, of being Brad Pitt getting discovered for 'Thelma and Louise,' but that doesn't always happen. I represent that stick-to-it-ness that it takes to build a career over time, guest spot by guest spot. Looking back from here, I wouldn't have wanted the journey to go any other way.
