Career Quotes
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When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.
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Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.
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Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career.
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There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
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The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
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If your manager is one that isn't engaged with your career development by offering frequent advice and guidance, it's time to look for greener pastures.
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All through my career I've written 1,000 words a day - even if I've got a hangover. You've got to discipline yourself if you're professional. There's no other way.
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In a career that is marked by grace, style and beautiful batsmanship, it’s a slog that’s ended Rahul Dravid‘s career. But once again, it was what was needed.
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I don't think I found my voice until I reached New York. I suppose it's possible I would have had some kind of different literary career if I had not discovered New York.
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There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
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Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
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I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.
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I felt like my career started late, and I think it was because of my height - and maybe some of my confidence issues.
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I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.
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Touring has been a major part of my career. I've done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night sell-out stint at the Indoor Arena in Birmingham, playing to a total audience of 65,000.
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I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.
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I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic.
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I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.
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One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.
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It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.
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I just look back, and I say, you know, Christopher Guest just raised my whole career to another level.
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Be kind to everyone you meet - and most importantly, never compare your career to another model's.
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We try to play football; don't forget it, right. My teams always in my career try to play football. I cannot control the other circumstances.
