Career Quotes

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.

I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company.

I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.

We always thought that we'd go on from the show to have a career in movies.

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.

Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

The only woman I have played in my career was my wife and I beat her easily! But she wasn't much good.

I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.