Career Quotes
-
Playing the misunderstood character has been really interesting to me. But I think after too long, that also becomes a little bit of a cliche. Or that's all you're expected to do. I didn't want that to be the totality of what my career was.
Anne Dudek
-
I did have a nice career in print, but traditional publishers don't always have the resources to create individualized marketing for their authors. Mine never figured out how to package books as hot as mine so that they found their full audience. Finally, I got frustrated enough over my lack of traction to walk away.
Emma Holly
-
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.
Ethan Mordden
-
I want to really study and learn about fashion, and kind of discipline for a few years, really start to study, and then probably start my photography career. I feel like that'd be really good for me - to disappear for a few years.
Brooklyn Beckham
-
I encourage others to choose a career they are passionate about and can do for the rest of their lives.
Ainsley Earhardt
-
I've chosen a career that's quite tricky. You have such high highs and low lows, and it's outrageously inconsistent. But it is what I love, which is so rare, and I'm so grateful for that every day.
Annaleigh Ashford
-
If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.
Nicole Kidman
-
My proudest thing in my career is that I was able to change it three times. And I'm happy about that. I couldn't have done the same thing my whole life; I would've gone nuts. I couldn't do it, because I do things based on impulsive excitement, and I'm just not that guy that can do something for 50 years and be excited about the same thing.
Jimmy Iovine
-
I definitely would love to transition into being more of a writer at some point in my career. I love playing shows and traveling, but I also love writing for other people, and that's something I'm investing my time in more when I'm home.
Ben Rector
-
"When you're immersed in your chosen career, you've chosen it to change your life. Dance has given my life meaning, energy, interests, friendships, learning experiences, and most of all an appreciation for nature - a connection with the processes of nature and it became an insightful part of creativity. It became the lens through which I look at life. I'm part of this dance right now!"
Anna Halprin
-
I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.
Bill Toomey
-
I think you judge your career by the scripts that are being sent your way.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
-
The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it’s usually not good for your career in the long term.
Alexandra Levit
-
Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.
Christian Bale
-
And every time I did spectacularly well in my classes, and I'm here to tell you that I did spectacularly well, I could always see the look of surprise on my professors' faces. You don't think I noticed? What you saw on Dave's face, I saw every damned day of my academic career. So what, Andres? I wanted to do something, to be something - and I did it. I don't think I deserve a medal, and I don't think I'm particularly special. I wanted to do something, and I figured out a way to do it.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
-
There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.
Essie Davis
-
I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.
John Polkinghorne
-
'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.
Michael Koryta
