Career Quotes

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

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'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations.

I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.