Careers Quotes

• I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • People
  • Exciting
  • Downtown

• I have loved filmed from when I was a child, but I never considered it as a future career.

  

  Chika Anadu
  • Children
  • Careers

• Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Play
  • Like
  • Excited

• My earlier days were all about playing, writing songs and producing songs. In the early 90's my former wife, Marylata Elton, got tapped to run the music department for DreamWorks. She worked right under Hans Zimmer during the heady days of Prince of Egypt, Shrek, Chicken Run, Gladiator just to name a few. She was and still is, one of the great music executives and has quite a career path of her own.

  

  Danny Jacob
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Running

• I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has.

  

  Trish Stratus
  • Helping
  • Cities
  • Wrestling

• My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

  

  Judy Davis
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Trouble

• I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Career

• I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Good
  • Best
  • Careers

• I'm always going to be cooking, doing restaurants, helping my kids in their careers, with their sports, with their school, but this opportunity is bigger picture. We can deploy quickly, because we don't have that red tape. We don't need to get requisition forms or this or that. We can just do it.

  

  Guy Fieri
  • School
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

  

  Rachel Hoffman
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Needs

• I think every album serves as a step in your career.

  

  Wade Bowen
  • Thinking
  • Career
  • Albums

• Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way he harmonized and layered his guitar sounds.

  

  Gary Hoey
  • Dream
  • Inspired
  • Sound

• One of my big, big strengths I think early on in my career was that I could learn very quickly. You wouldn't have to tell me the things 10 times or 50 times until I would understand them. You would only have to tell me two or three times.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Times
  • Careers

• I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last decade on a television set absorbing as much as I could from in front of the camera, I'm now eager to learn as much as I can from behind it.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Career
  • Creative
  • Lasts

• Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

  

  Michael Crawford
  • Sometimes
  • Careers

• If you can look at your failure and answer yes to the questions, "Did I give it my absolute best effort?" and "Have I learned something valuable?" then you have failed in the right way. By these standards, I've failed many times in my career. But every failure has made me stronger and wiser. Inevitably, success has always followed.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Career
  • Success
  • Giving

• I came late to galleries. A lot of people my age started their careers younger, so I was spared seeing that side for a long time.

  

  Wade Guyton
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.

  

  LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child
  • Career
  • City
  • Acting

• She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • Life
  • She
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Career
  • Beginning
  • Artist

• You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.

  

  Ian McDonald Foreigner
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Gift

• Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn't do in their entire collegiate careers.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Careers
  • Arrogant

• I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Great
  • Career
  • Roles

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