Career Quotes

• The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in my music but me as a person. That was my bit of arrogance, I guess. That's something I learned from Madonna. I was a fan right from the first time I heard 'Holiday.'

  

  Pink
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • People
  • Business
  • Brotherhood

• I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Career
  • Moments
  • Plan

• For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow as a person and an artist after the experience.

  

  Ashton Sanders
  • Experience
  • Career
  • Serious

• I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
  • Career
  • Know

• 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 had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • People
  • Career

• I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Singing
  • Voice

• It was wonderful and heartfelt. We told him he had a lot of friends who care about him and the issues he has embraced over his career.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Friends
  • Issues
  • Heartfelt

• It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Good
  • Plan
  • Good Things

• When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Career
  • Respect
  • Him

• I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Career
  • Always
  • Endeavor

• For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Truth
  • Pretty
  • Success

• I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Sports
  • Drama
  • Pride

• The 'Daughter of the Regiment' that I did in Boston was vintage Sarah Caldwell, which is to say it was brilliant. Before my career was over, I'm sure I sang the role of Marie at least a hundred times, often in productions that cost a fortune, but none touched hers.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Career
  • Daughter

• 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 have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Much

• It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Work
  • Important
  • Achievement

• The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.

  

  James Salter
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Business

• At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Work
  • Different
  • Interesting

• I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Career
  • Past
  • Beginning

• If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Hope
  • Perfect
  • Moving

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