Career Quotes

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

All I could think about was, 'I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.'

I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews.

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.

I've played for the Miami Heat my whole career under Pat Riley. Mr. GQ himself. So when I pick out my outfits before a game, I'm already feeling confident. And some of that swagger stays with me when I take the court.

I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.

To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.

And a lesson in this movie is dig beneath the surface. And so with my words, with my character, I purposely created a character that was away from how you've known me thus far in my career.

I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time.

How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

Every career thing I do can't be perfect and sometimes my decisions are wrong.

I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.