Career Quotes
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I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to work while the other one was.
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A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.
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The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?
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Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the center of attention. But I had a dream of being an actor. I went to NYU and studied theatre. I learned a craft. And began my career straight out of college.
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If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
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I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.
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To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.
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But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.
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Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.
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I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
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Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile.
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I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.'
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People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
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At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.
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If you want to be an actor because you want to be recognized on the street and have people ask you for autographs, look for another career. If you want to be an actor because you love being on stage and want to capture a person's heart, go for it.
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I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.
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I started my career with television, and whatever work I did was keeping the content as my topmost priority. Same goes with the movies: I never grabbed any work!
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Because I started my career in improv, performing with Second City and the Ace Trucking Company, I always enjoy being in situations where - as an actor - you have to think fast & be light on your feet.
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This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.
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Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.
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I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.
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I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience. I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn't get far enough in any of those things.
