Career Quotes

• I'm not really too worried about what I'm gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Career

• I think you can be terribly overexposed. I've been always very careful in my career to do theatre; it takes you out of the television eye, and people are glad to see you back again.

  

  Denholm Elliott
  • People
  • Career
  • Theatre

• I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

  

  Jamie Moyer
  • Career
  • Training
  • Spring

• I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.

  

  Jacob K. Javits
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Father

• Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Couple
  • Training
  • Enough

• My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package - because I do believe some people care about that - to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there's always been headbutting involved.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Iwan Rheon is a great actor, and he's going to go on to a long brilliant career. And most of the characters he'll play will not be evil. He's not one of those who can only play a bad guy.

  

  David Benioff
  • Great
  • Long
  • Bad

• I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

  

  Chili Davis
  • Important
  • Career

• Modelling was never a career option for me; it was always a hobby. I was modelling while I was pursuing my B.Tech, so the obvious choice after finishing my studies was to do a job. But while I was modelling and doing TV commercials, I really loved being in front of the camera. I enjoyed the shooting process.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Job
  • Career
  • Option

• I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Think
  • Myself

• I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!

  

  Jeanette MacDonald
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Forever

• One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Ambition

• I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • People
  • Career
  • Integrity

• I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Looking

• I'm at that point in my career you can put up all the numbers you want to, you can swing whatever statistic you want to swing, but it doesn't matter if you don't get to the Super Bowl and win it.

  

  DeAngelo Williams
  • Up
  • Career

• The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Stupid

• My career has been a bit strange. I don't think it took the normal route.

  

  Fred Ward
  • Career

• I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last.

  

  Daniela Ruah
  • Long
  • Character
  • Career

• I don't think one should attribute the success and failure of a film to a single actor. When you decide to do a film, you weigh the pros and cons before taking a call. Only when you run out of patience, get insecure, and feel your career is heading nowhere do you sign anything that comes your way.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Success
  • Single
  • Failure

• I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Focus
  • Pleasure
  • Interest

• I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or 'My character never wears an orange shirt,' or any of the number of inane things I've heard on movie sets throughout my career.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Never

• Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Life
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I'm trying to have a family and a career.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Career

• Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Job

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