Career Quotes
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There are certain people throughout my career I've earmarked as smart people I would like to work with. And I'm not just talking about advertising people.
David Droga
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In terms of acting, I've been acting from a very young age. I've always loved it and wanted to have a career in acting or something to do with it.
April Pearson
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
Jack Nicholson
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I was a guy back in the Eighties who was one movie away from a huge career, which at that time didn't happen. In the Nineties, I worked a lot, but it was kind of, 'Get out there and dig and find things.' Then I guess 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven' were referred to as my comeback.
Dennis Quaid
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I'm not sure at all that I'm any good at this mentoring/investing business - that's why I'm using my own money, and that's why it's not a career.
Jerry Yang
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There was a time when I was young and unemployed, struggling to start my career. During my A-Levels, I was hit by a car, which shattered my bones and left me confined to my bedroom for a year. Weirdly, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Jameela Jamil
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.
J. G. Ballard
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Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.
Dylan McDermott
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
Patrick Swayze
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The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.
Brandon Webb
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I've had such an odd career.
Sally Field
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
Orson Scott Card
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I'm just trying to do big things with my career all the time.
Jacob Batalon
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.
Omar Epps
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I think every album serves as a step in your career.
Wade Bowen
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I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.
Carla Hall
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I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'
Chris Adami
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Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.
Gene Luen Yang
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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
Adam Duritz Matt Malley
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A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.
Ellen DeGeneres
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You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.
Idris Elba
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U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.
Apolo Ohno
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You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are really going to do much end up having a career. I don't think anyone really knows what it is that drives somebody to get on their computer and want to download a song.
Jason Aldean