Career Quotes

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me.

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career.

And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.