Career Quotes

You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!

His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.

This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.

I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.

I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.

I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful.

Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.'

I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.

I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.

I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real.

I am hoping for a long career.

We want to start them thinking that they're responsible for their own career.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.