Career Quotes

• You know, you kinda think you're gonna have to work for twenty years before you get to work with Meryl Streep. So getting to work with her... I almost feel like I didn't pay enough dues, it was pretty incredible. I always thought I'd work with her, I just didn't think it would happen at this point in my career.

  

  Ben Younger
  • Work
  • Think
  • Career

• What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Future
  • Positive
  • Careers

• I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one - but there's no period movies, no special effects movies. I just do character studies and so, some of them are gonna bump into each other, but I love the challenge, with a good script. I love the challenge of playing not a very pleasant or attractive character that seduces an audience or wins an audience over by the end.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Career
  • Films
  • Period Movies

• The first time I came here to the U.S. to start a career, it was in 2002 or 2003. Since then, it's been so, so hard.

  

  Eugenio Derbez
  • Career
  • Been
  • Came

• The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • Career
  • Singing

• “There are intersections of integrity and temptation in every career and every life. The challenge is to do the right thing no matter what.”

  

  William H. Gates, Sr.
  • Career
  • Integrity
  • Temptation

• I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera
  • Career
  • Opportunity

• Throughout my rapping career, I always cooked for myself and anyone I worked with. It's what actually kept me grounded through those crazy years.

  

  Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
  • Career
  • Crazy

• I know that when I have had whatever run-ins I have had throughout my career, I have had them because I have done the things that I feel like I need to do to be the best, and that is why I am in this sport, that is what drives me.

  

  Brad Keselowski
  • Sport
  • Feel Like
  • Drives

• Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Work
  • Career
  • Nervous

• I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Trying
  • Career

• I felt like my career started late, and I think it was because of my height - and maybe some of my confidence issues.

  

  Allison Janney
  • Career
  • Confidence

• If my career isn't going that well, I'd rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: 'I'm for hire! Remember me!'

  

  James McAvoy
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• Wherever the career wasn't going the way I wanted it to, I would experience those disappointments, and I would put them somewhere where I could say, 'Come on now, you're still working. Keep your focus where it belongs.'

  

  Ann Dowd
  • Experience
  • Career
  • Focus

• My dad was career Army.

  

  Reg E. Cathey
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Army

• There are things that matter more than your election. That may take difficult votes, may take career-ending votes for people, but if we aren't willing to do that, then we're not going to move forward.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • People
  • May
  • Career

• Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

  

  Alexander Borodin
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.

  

  Mike Posner
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Earlier in my career, fans weren't a big consideration for me.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Career
  • Fans
  • Consideration

• I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Important
  • Problems
  • Save

• When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • People
  • Career

• African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Women
  • Power
  • American

• I was just grateful for the fact that I was able to repay my parents for their sacrifices throughout my career.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Career
  • Grateful
  • My Parents

• When I entered the workforce, I was frustrated. When you're starting your career, somebody else is 'The Man' or 'The Woman.' They go into a room and make the decision, not you. You don't feel empowered. I wanted to break through that.

  

  Mark Pincus
  • Career
  • Decision

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