Career Quotes

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.

I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

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.

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.

My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a solo career wasn't as much a big deal to me.

I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.