Career Quotes

• 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
  • Up
  • Great
  • Song

• Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.

  

  Joanne Woodward
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • God
  • Learn

• I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Job
  • Crazy
  • Thought

• I don't think it's by any means an end to my career.

  

  Mario Vazquez
  • Career

• My hands. I'm constantly working on my hands. I'm constantly working on my ground game and constantly trying not to get satisfied with where I'm at with my career and where I'm at as an athlete. I'm somewhat happy, but never satisfied.

  

  Brock Lesnar
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Game

• Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Career
  • Season
  • Winners

• I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • School
  • Experience
  • Career

• The biggest thing is, if you want it still, you'll do everything you need to do to make sure you extend your career.

  

  Jason Day
  • Career

• I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Done
  • Want
  • Path

• A lot of people would be happy that they got through a long career and had a chance to play as many times in the finals. To me, I wanted to win for the franchise and for the people. And when you can't do that, it's devastating, particularly for someone like me.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Long
  • Happy

• I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Time
  • World
  • Best

• A millionaire! I'm a Young Money Millionaire, tougher than Nigerian hair. My criteria, compared to your career? Just isn't fair.

  

  Lil Wayne
  • Money
  • Career
  • Hair

• I've always been very ambitious, and I always knew that I wanted something else. Cuba was a good start, but I knew I wasn't going to develop a real career, and I wanted to get closer to filmmakers that I wanted to work with.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Good
  • Work
  • Real

• I'm in kind of a strange position - I have a strong Australian career and a strong British career. Then there's the American career. For every movie I do here, I do two somewhere else. I bounce back and forth between the three places.

  

  Caroline Goodall
  • American
  • Movie
  • Strong

• 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
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Successful

• I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea of doing it on my own in my future career.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Time
  • Future
  • Explore

• I'm essentially working from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. It's my biggest hobby but also my favorite career that I could ever have. Every single platform is important.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • Up
  • Important
  • Single

• I don't have small goals; I just have goals, and it's, one, stay healthy; and two, have a very successful career.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Career
  • Small
  • Goals

• Coming in, I wanted to be a great player, and right now at the beginning of my career, I'm showing some slight sunshine that I can be the player I want.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Great
  • Player
  • Beginning

• The rules I sort of live by for my theater career, which I hope to live for my film career, is that if there's something that intrigues me or fascinates me, or I don't know how to do it, then I should do it.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Career

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