Careers Quotes
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I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.
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There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.
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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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I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.
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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.
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Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.
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I have a full life off the road. I was never in it just for the money or the career. That's why I'm comfortable with myself. I know who I am out of the spotlight.
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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.
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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.
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My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.
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You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.
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I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.
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I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
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Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
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Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn't do in their entire collegiate careers.
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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!
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Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.
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A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.
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My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.
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A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times.
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In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who never got represented before. I felt this responsibility to correct that situation, to be like, "Look, you can't discriminate against refugees and Muslim people and blah, blah, blah . . ."
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I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
