Career Quotes
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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.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
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My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.
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I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.
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The fact that a New Hampshire legislator's position is not seen as a career or a way of supporting a family has meant that it draws women. At times, I think men who might be looking for a paid career have known that they couldn't make one out of serving in the legislature. So there's a little more space for women.
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I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.
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More people saw the pilot of 'Glee' than saw me in my entire 10-year career on Broadway.
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My personal life is awesome, but there's always more to strive for in my career.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.
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I felt after I left prison in England that maybe there was a slim chance I could put my life back on track and have a career.
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I never really thought of comedy as a career. My goal was, when I moved to New York, I was going to write serious films.
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There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It's a very special week, and being able to wear that green jacket. It's made my whole career. It's special.
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My social and political interests are part of my career. I cannot separate them. My songs reflect the human condition. The role of art isn't just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.
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I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film.
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Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.
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As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.
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I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.
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Career diversification ain't a bad thing.
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I don't think it's by any means an end to my career.
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For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?
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After 'Game of Thrones,' having a character like that, that's like the pinnacle of your career.
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I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.
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I want to dig in before I finish with a career here in Congress - be known as someone who was a really serious legislator, who had really good ideas and was willing to work across the aisle to get broad consensus to solve some of these problems the country is facing.
