Career Quotes

• I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

  

  Edward Dmytryk
  • Long
  • Family
  • Party

• My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Help
  • Career
  • Parents

• But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

  

  Colin Hanks
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Winning the World Cup is definitely the highlight of my career. I thought the gold medal at the Olympics would peak it, but winning the World Cup, the reception... it's what we all dreamed of when we were little.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • World
  • Winning
  • Gold

• I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.

  

  John Oliver
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Decision

• When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.

  

  Amy Chua
  • School
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Time
  • Career

• I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Up
  • Career

• If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Career
  • Period

• I've been evolving in my stunt career Stunts have always had their place, and I have to measure them now. I've done things where, if I make a mistake, I could die. You really need to look at each thing. That usually is a mechanical failure. So, I have gone from doing everything, to listening and saying, "Maybe I shouldn't do this."

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Die
  • Mistake
  • Place

• So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us.

  

  Eydie Gorme
  • Career
  • Growing
  • Brand

• We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Up
  • Beginning
  • Balance

• There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Career

• One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never know where the next thing's going to come from.

  

  Drew Goddard
  • Different
  • Soul
  • Nice

• 2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bunch of money, buying a bunch of Twitter. I saw my friend fired as CEO of Twitter. Uber was growing like a weed. As these companies get bigger and bigger, there's more and more friction. Being public was the last thing I wanted to do at the time.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Time
  • Money
  • Growing

• I tried in my career to be really good to fans.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Good
  • Career

• I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.

  

  Mats Sundin
  • Career

• I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Career

• By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' because my dad was always saying to me, 'Pick a career path where you're always going to be necessary.' But by junior year, I was president of choir, I was the lead in the school play, and I just loved being onstage performing.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• 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.

  

  George Strait
  • People
  • Career
  • Alone

• Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My record proves that I don't make political or public-service decisions based on what typical folks in Washington do, which is, 'What's going to get me past the next election, or what's best for my career?'

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • Political
  • Past
  • Service

• Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Career
  • Comedy

• And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Career

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