Career Quotes

At my house, it’s an, ‘If dad says it, you can say it’ kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.

It was the roughest day of my career, my final day of shooting on ‘Breaking Bad,’ knowing that I will never be able to kind of zip on that skin again.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

It’s a strange thing to be a so-called alternative cartoonist, because in the early part of my career, I was really tethered to the superhero world.

I started my career so early and developed in print for better or for worse, so I think there’s a sense some of my earliest readers are kind of copilots on this voyage with me.

I have been in control of what I’ve been doing, of the career I’ve put together.

In reality, I’m very restless, and I get bored very easily. It’s the same with my career: I need to outperform myself with every film.

I went to the U.S. to start my modeling career at a very young age. So, venturing into films and handling the pressure isn’t a big task.

Completely overwhelmed, it is huge project to be working on ‘Singh Is Bliing.’ How everyone is enjoying the film is everything to me. Definitely, it is the biggest milestone of my career.

I’m hungry. Always have been, my whole career.

A career is like a house: it’s made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

If everything was good, maybe I wouldn’t have a career. I wouldn’t have anything to make fun of.

I feel completely fearless when I’m on stage. And also totally fearful. There’s the fear that I’m not making a very smart career move sometimes, but there’s the stronger belief that these things need to be said.

I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career.

I’m not really too worried about what I’m gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me.

After I turned producer, people asked me, ‘Why are you taking up production? You are still so young and doing well.’ Just because an actress decides to make movies, do people assume that her career is not going well?

When you see the industry’s fickleness so early on, you realise that you are only as good as your last release. It is all about your work. And that has set the way I look at my profession and what I do in my career.

U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that’s what it’s all about.

With ‘Aurangzeb,’ I just knew that the film wasn’t going to work, though I think it was one of my most underrated performances. I did the film too early in my career, but I stand by it.

For an individual, playback singing is not enough to sustain a career, and it is not really a main source of income.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Once we decided not to get pregnant, I snapped back into work mode, and now I have just been really enjoying my career.

I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they’re in charge of their own career somehow or other.

The higher the level of people’s perceived self-efficacy, the wider the range of career options they seriously consider, the greater their interest in them, and the better they prepare themselves educationally for the occupational pursuits they choose.

He’s helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there’s no Larry Brown, then there’s no MVP, Allen Iverson.

I couldn’t have accomplished the things in my career if I didn’t practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says ‘Allen, I don’t like practice, either.’ I’ve got to straighten that kid right then.

There’s not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I’m not the typical standard, so that’s not even an option.

I don’t pass judgment on anybody, but personally, I prefer a more natural look. I think it’s helping my longevity in my career because I’m playing my age.

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I’m a movie star, or I’m this model, but I’m still the same person I was when I was a little girl.

One of the reasons I didn’t really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.

There’s only one movie in my career I’ve had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn’t have cut.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it’s Dario’s season, and I’m really excited about going racing.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

The trick is for Divas to find what works for them. I’ve done some ridiculous stuff in my career, but there’s still nothing that’s gotten a reaction as big as me skipping around the ring.

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

We’ve managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we’ve never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren’t commercial enough.

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp’s career – and then you move to Paris.

When I’m shooting, I don’t care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I’m serving the script, not serving anyone’s career.

My attention since ‘Clueless’ has been on family, relationships, activism, the planet, and my career.

I don’t understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven’t even established a career yet. It’s hard to see past that. I’m not so sure that’s smart in the long run.

My entire career, I’ve been a worker.

When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy’s stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, ’cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

When I was new, I didn’t know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.

I’m trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.

I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don’t take it for granted.

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it’s the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do tend to stand out.

Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don’t bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

Whenever I have a play or opening or anything going on in my career, my parents always come up and see it.

What I would say is I’ve only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn’t strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.

I have an uncle who lived to 101, and my father died at 95, so I have a second career ahead of me.

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

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.

That’s such a thrill – a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it’s still packin’ the house.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, ‘I want that.’

I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it’s like a labor of love, it’s not a huge career. It’s not that successful, but it’s something I love so much that I’ll do it regardless.

The thing is, I wasn’t surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.

You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father’s image is natural Freud built a whole career around it.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

I discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I’m not good at many things, and I said ‘I need help.’

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.

I’ve hardly had an avant-garde career… If you’re going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you’re doing it for the first time.

Somebody ask me, ‘Alberto, why you not race in Torino?’ I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and you’ll have neither a craft nor a community.

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I’ve been running, I probably won’t false start again during my career.

I’ve been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really long.

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it’d be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

I don’t play roles everybody likes. I’d rather have a career I’m proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I’m a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I’m not a mass product. I’m not everyone’s cup of tea.

My whole career, I’ve been fighting wrestlers. If you look back, all of my fights have been against wrestlers.

In terms of acting, I’ve been acting from a very young age. I’ve always loved it and wanted to have a career in acting or something to do with it.

I mean, they’re threatening – my career is over. You know, everything I’ve worked so hard. I’ve worked extremely hard since about 17 years old, you know, as a White House intern on up.

Early in my career, I’d plan something out for my characters. But I’ve learned that if you know who your character is and you go on instinct, it won’t be wrong. It’s never wrong. It’s just different.

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book ‘Fall On Your Knees.’

I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

I don’t know if it’s my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I’ll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major – the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they’re dumb and they don’t know what they’re going to get, but I don’t think so.

I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.

Jason McDermott’s political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.

The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.

As far as post-‘SNL’ career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I’ll do it, you know?

Getting ‘SNL’ was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.

People say, ‘Well, whose career do you follow? Where do you see your career going? What movie do you want to do next?’ And I can’t tell you what type of movie I would go and do next. I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that’s somebody I have to play.

Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.

I’m really glad I didn’t have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can’t do that anymore.

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

I’ve been so fortunate in my career and my own life just to have all these opportunities, and the talk show has always been one of my favorite formats.

Any article’s good. Long as it’s publicity, I think that’s all that matters. I think it’s advancement for my career.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

Sometimes you get caught up in what’s going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you’re not just a regular guy.

It’s been a wonderful career, I couldn’t ask for anything more.

I accomplished so many things, so early in my career.

I don’t need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

I’m convinced that had I not changed my name, I don’t think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.

I’ve spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

One of my earlier films is ‘Quigley Down Under.’ That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.

My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.

Maybe I’m naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

The captain thing was really an honor, and it was really flattering for me. It was really something that I didn’t expect, and I would say that was the highlight of my career so far, being elected captain by my peers.

I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn’t lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.

We know Roger Ebert loved the ‘Sun-Times’ and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironically, it was his illness and losing his voice that caused him to explore another venue.

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.

Even though David Pottruck has gone to this unbelievable career where he is a billionaire, there is always a new hurdle. He never sits there saying, ‘I’m the best.’

When you want a raise, you’re not only going in saying: ‘I want more money.’ You’re going in and saying: ‘Here’s what I want out of my career. Here’s what I accomplished. Here’s what I said I was going to do. Here’s what I’ve done. Not only do I deserve more money, but I want to get to here on my career.’

I’ve had a career that is kind of under the radar, but it sure is varied, and I’ve been so blessed to be able to get paid to do something I love to do.

In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.

I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like ‘See, I’m not a nerd. Look, I’m in ‘Vogue.’

Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other’s face and ending one’s career.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay playing a Jewish woman and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

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.

My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.

But, if there’s any aspect of my career that needs attention, it’s writing.

He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department’s objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing.

People are afraid of things they don’t understand. They don’t know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

I had known that I’d wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I wanted to have a dual career. I wanted to be an actor, and I also at that time wanted to be a rock star.

The NBA wasn’t a big deal at that time, so it wasn’t really in my career plans.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn’t put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

Nobody, but nobody stays a public-address announcer for more than a couple of years. Truly. Public-address announcing is not a career. Public-address announcers only work 81 days a year, so you don’t make a living.

Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, ‘No way.’

I was terrified to do ‘G.I. Joe.’ I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn’t work, it’s a huge hit on your career. People are like, ‘Well he couldn’t make a $170 million movie work. I don’t want him in my film.’

When I graduated I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn’t want a conventional career.

Everybody goes and sees ‘Fantastic Four,’ but nobody sees ‘Sunshine.’ I’d have a different career if people saw that.

I’ve seen what can happen to an actor when he’s just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it’s ten years later, your career’s happened, and you haven’t had any control.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don’t have much of a plan, really.

I have always been a multitasker when it comes to my career I’ve been an actress, a singer and everything because I love to do what I do.

I haven’t spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

However, I’m at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don’t have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I’m not immediately recognizable.

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I’d just go do something else. I don’t have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‘What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?’ At that time you have to say: ‘OK, forget that and just go ahead.’

The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.

Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It’s difficult to adjust to not have someone around that’s in your life, in your life.

I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

If I’ve learned anything in my career, it’s that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That’s just the way it is.

The first essential in a boy’s career is to find out what he’s fitted for, what he’s most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I’m at a place in my career now where I don’t necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

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.

Since I was a young girl, I always wanted to pursue law studies. I would have never imagined that my career would have taken a complete different route.

I’ve always liked the idea of being a father. And I’ve always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, ‘I want to go off and do a solo career.’… They come back, and other people come in.

I thought, ‘Wow, if we could have a career that was five or six years long, that would be fantastic.’ And, of course, never even thinking it would still be something I’d be doing in 45 years.

The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which – to me, in my early 20s – seemed like a phenomenally long time.

Well, I think I’ve had a fairly meandering career.

I’m pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it’s gonna be learning my lines.

I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley’s son.

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

It’s the business I’m in, I can’t say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.

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 have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you’re dealing with Jerry Garcia or Lou Reed or Patti Smith or a Whitney or an Aretha, they know what they want with their career.

The worst piece of advice I’ve gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, ‘Remember, it’s all about likeability.’

I have my family, which is my main thing the organization a modeling career. All these things are important, but family definitely comes first.

In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.

Throughout his remarkable business and government career, Robert Rubin, now 65, has both worked exhaustively at reaching well-founded conclusions and rejected the idea that anything – and he means anything – can be a ‘provable certainty.’

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

In my stunted career as a scholar, I’d read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio… But after 1400? Nihil.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

Due to these various circumstances, when I entered the Catholic University of Louvain in 1934, I had already travelled in a number of European countries and spoke four languages fairly fluently. This turned out to be a valuable asset in my subsequent career as a scientist.

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from ‘Fast Times At Ridgemont High,’ and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I’m fine.

I was just going at this career – boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God – I forgot to get married!

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I’ve written 75 books, so I’m better at it now than I was earlier in my career.

I admit, I’m suspicious of any career planning that involves chasing the next ‘big thing,’ just because it’s so hard to predict what the next big thing is going to be a couple of years – or even six months – out.

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What’s it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

I’ve lived my career backwards – I started off huge and I’ve got smaller and more personal, and I’m much more comfortable now.

While I’m trying to be different, I’m trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought – bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

Throughout my whole swimming career, I’ve never been disqualified once. I’ve never been warned once.

I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it’s really surreal.

I don’t think when I started off that I was expecting to become so specialized, but what happened is that when my career started, I didn’t pick my first film. I was picked to do it, and it happened to be a horror film.

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we’re with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.

I’m in kind of a strange position – I have a strong Australian career and a strong British career. Then there’s the American career. For every movie I do here, I do two somewhere else. I bounce back and forth between the three places.

Election’ made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.

For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need.

I’m very Belgian, and I will die Belgian. I just have my house in the north of France because I began my career in Paris, even though I don’t live there anymore.

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

I don’t have siblings, which is probably the biggest reason why my parents were able to give the attention to my career that they did.

The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.

Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in ‘Downton’ will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.

Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I’ve played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment.

I know it wouldn’t seem like I’ve had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, ‘That’s not good enough.’

If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the ‘child actors argument’.

Obviously, I’ve been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I’ve been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.

I’ve had high-powered publicists in my career, and I’ve had publicists when they’ve had no power. I’ve run the gamut.

I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don’t have it in me. I’m not a competitive person, and I’m also really private.

I don’t think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.

The draft is a crapshoot, so I’ve been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you’re momentum’s going, that’s when people really want to get to know about you.

I was looking at making a shift in my career. I’ve been so blessed I’d like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that.

Whatever happens with my career, I’m going to prosper no matter what.

Everything I’ve ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I’ve never written anything down on paper.

Over my career, I’ve had to adjust my game.

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 got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it’s disproved time and again.

I have never been one of those actors who say, ‘Oh, my character wouldn’t do this,’ or ‘My character never wears an orange shirt,’ or any of the number of inane things I’ve heard on movie sets throughout my career.

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

If you don’t see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don’t know how you’re going to feel about it.

To Die For,’ with Nicole Kidman, is great – her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.

My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don’t get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly – as a writer, they’re not your vision.

I want to know what it’s like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.

We’re not Seattle East. We’re our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.

Acting is my first love, and that’s my main career, it really is.

I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that’s massive for my career going forward.

My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I’ve done anything that’s intentional in my career, it’s to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.

Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.

I was a guy back in the Eighties who was one movie away from a huge career, which at that time didn’t happen. In the Nineties, I worked a lot, but it was kind of, ‘Get out there and dig and find things.’ Then I guess ‘The Rookie’ and ‘Far From Heaven’ were referred to as my comeback.

I’m definitely not satisfied about my career. I don’t know how you can be, it’s the very nature of things.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

If you get to the point in your career where you’re running with a gun – I’ve yet to run with a gun. I’ve stood still with a gun, and I’ve walked with a gun, but I’ve never run with a gun. Running with a gun, to me, that’s when you know you’ve really made it.

I’ve built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody’s Chinese in the films.

I’ve been lucky enough to build a career outside of America, where I got 18 years and over 60 films of experience.

The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it’s one of those tick boxes in a career.

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.

The challenge is maintaining your interest over a long career, as opposed to pushing hard with no longevity. I’m surprised that I’ve been able to dance as long as I have.

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven’t tried to do things in an underhanded way.

I suppose ‘Worried About the Boy’ was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn’t get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

When I got picked up by the Tapout crew and was featured on their reality show, that really jumpstarted my career.

My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ and ‘Don Giovanni.’

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don’t know what will be stronger than the other.

I mean, ‘Kids In The Hall’ is the reason I have any career at all.

I started my career wanting to make a ‘James Bond’ movie, and I couldn’t get hired! I made ‘The Bourne Identity,’ and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the ‘James Bond’ franchise.

In England, I’ve had a more balanced career directing and acting. It can be quite difficult to juggle the two careers.

I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.

I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.

I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with ‘The Fighter,’ there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.

I’m at that point in my career you can put up all the numbers you want to, you can swing whatever statistic you want to swing, but it doesn’t matter if you don’t get to the Super Bowl and win it.

I didn’t have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan… Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

When I’m done fighting, I want to look to get some sort of driving career somewhere. My goal is to eventually get into the Mint 400 and do the trophy truck stuff.

I never ‘went Hollywood.’ Perhaps some of my behavior was detrimental to my career, but I couldn’t go the route of Hollywood parties.

And I mean, I’m established. So I’m not worried about having a hit at this point in my career.

If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can’t expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.

I drank beer, and I had a career year.

In my whole career, I’ve never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There’s so many teams that are involved. You’ve got to smile because we’re in it.

Readers have actually changed the way I’ve done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.

I’d always assumed that by 40 I’d have at least a modicum of stability – a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.

If there’s anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it’s the Olympics.

Really, throughout my career, what I’ve done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I’ve made them better.

After ‘Click, Clack, Moo’ was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.

One of the blessings I’ve had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.

The truth is, it’s not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

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

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

We all deal with failure. If you’re lucky to have a long career, it’s part of the experience.

I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I’ve ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last.

I have another aspect of my career where I’m a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I’ll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense.

I suppose it’s the feminist in me, but I didn’t always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.

The making of ‘Naked’ was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.

Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don’t know whether we’ll get back to some movies or not.

No, I don’t think ‘The Wire’ screwed up my career at all.

I’ve played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I’ve been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I’m doing now.

Dancing is a tough career, but I’m glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

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

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

In your career, you must be so careful otherwise, you get caught in a particular image, and it’s hard to break.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

I feel lucky because earlier in my career, I found what I liked to do it’s build software that you see your friends using on the street, and they like it.

My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it’s TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.

I’m a complete addict of The ‘X Factor,’ so I can see why everyone gets so inspired. But there’s a downside to celebrity: your life is up for grabs, your career is much more disposable, and you are therefore vulnerable. It’s a high price to pay.

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.

Pretty much from 1979 through 1988, the backbone of my career was the theater. Working on Broadway a couple of times, working off-Broadway, and also doing a lot of regional theater. Make no mistake, I lived very frugally. I had an apartment that was real cheap. I would get two or three jobs per season, and in between I’d be on unemployment.

Trading Places’ did more for my career than anything I’d ever done. It was a zonking great hit, and it was also just a joy to do.

In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn’t enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.

Growing up as a high jumper, I said if I could ever jump 2.40, I’d be pretty satisfied with my career. It’s definitely a barrier for high jumpers.

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

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I’m playing the biggest parts now that I’m older. That’s probably right, because I wasn’t ready for them before.

I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I’ve turned it into somewhat of a hobby.

After all, didn’t I blow a magnificent career?

I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

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.

You know, punk bands now sell with one record – their first or second record – sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That’s why I go over to Johnny Ramone’s house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that’s a great career to have where you’re doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he’s primarily an actor.

The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was – it really is, I have a career despite myself.

I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal – because I’m not hiding anything from them.

Cheney’s memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush’s administration, but about his entire life and political career.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Consistency is one of the hallmarks of my career. You knew what you were going to get out of E-Smith every game, every year, no matter if I was 22, 21 or 35 years old.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

Maybe it’s oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that’s what it is. I’ll never make that mistake.

You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.

When my career slowed, I knew deep down it wasn’t over.

Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.

My career is playing the guys who go, ‘Boo.’ That’s what I do.

I have my career and my family, and that’s it.

Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as ‘founding fathers.’

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

I’m someone who’s done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

I’d been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I’d been so scared of failing that I made my career – and myself – a big joke.

I’m my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

In my career, which has been fairly two-dimensional, people make decisions based on your persona.

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and I respond well to that.

Throughout my career, I’ve been sponsored by several different equipment companies – Lynx, Titleist, Callaway.

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.

I can do whatever I want, because my career is a certain thing.

Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose.

My career wouldn’t exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.

I got into television, and I’m a television guy, so I’ve never really had a movie career.

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton’s WWII career.

I’ve never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven’t needed to.

The elite private tutor is typically ivy-educated and falls into one of two categories – a twenty-something pursuing an artistic career on the side, or someone older who has made a career out of college-prep. They are presentable, well-spoken, and are treated by doormen as guests more than as employees.

I like to think there are a lot of balls in the air, and the kids are not one that I choose to drop. They have been a priority and I have a career that allows for a little more flexibility at times and hours that are quite mom-friendly.

I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I’m rejecting that premise.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won’t stay unless they see real career options.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.

Because it’s difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it’s difficult to have a career, it’s even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it’s harder in other fiercely contested fields.

I didn’t want to give up my career. That’s what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn’t stop – didn’t want to stop – being all these different characters.

Don’t say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don’t give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone’s career ebbs and flows, especially if you’re African American. That’s the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

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

I got snubbed about eight times for the Mid-Summer Classic, and I know what type of career I had, and I know that I’m a true All-Star. The selection process is not very accurate.

Obviously, I’m at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I’m 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you’re a prospect. And that’s what I am right now in Europe. I’m a prospect. I’m not a seasoned veteran.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody’s path, what they’ve done.

While I’m an athlete and while I’m fighting actively, I don’t intend to pursue a career in politics. What happens after that, we’ll see. But I don’t have an intention to do both at the same time.

The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep’s or Kate Winslet’s. It’s just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.

All my career, all that I’ve really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

Well, you’ve got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras – he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.

For me, ‘The Brady Bunch’ is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that’s it.

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career – and mine has been all over the map – you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you’re dealt and play them.

It destroys the soul to hear that you’re all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It’s a very special week, and being able to wear that green jacket. It’s made my whole career. It’s special.

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I’m very self-critical.

I want a long career in music, so you’ve gotta keep trying things out it’s gotta get progressively better.

I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over.

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

You can’t rely on luck. I’ve had some stages in my career where I’ve said we’re going to wing it, and we’ve always ended up in trouble.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that’s how I got my nickname ‘the Fifth Beatle.’

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

I’ve certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I’m one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

It’s not about an opening weekend. It’s about a career, building a set of films you’re proud of. Period.

Eventually, I just couldn’t imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.

If you go all the way back, I’ve always written science-fiction, I’ve always written fantasy, I’ve always written horror stories and monster stories, right from the beginning of my career. I’ve always moved back and forth between the genres. I don’t really recognise that there’s a significant difference between them in some senses.

When I came out, I was 68, and I was totally prepared for my career to recede when I spoke to the press for the first time. What happened after that blew me away. I started getting more offers. My career blossomed.

When I was a teenager, the biggest heartthrob was Tab Hunter. He was in every movie out of Warner Bros. until he was exposed as gay, and his career faded. That was an object lesson. I knew I must protect my sexual orientation.

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.

If my son wants a boxing career, I won’t stop him, but I definitely won’t push him. It’s bad for a kid to be pressured.

I think I signed some contract, early on in my career, that I will only kiss Steve Carell when I do a movie.

During your career, you put yourself in peak physical condition, but then you bear the brunt of it for the rest of your life.

Since first starting my career, I’ve grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I’m always the youngest.

Through my whole career, that’s been a major thing – bringing my family with me.

Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on ‘The Big C’ has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she’s warned me what to expect.

When I started in the mid-’90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time there was no Judas Priest and I certainly wasn’t going to hang my hat up on my musical career.

The whole object of the players’ association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly in football, which is a very short career.

I don’t feel typecast almost at all, and it could just be because I’m insensitive, but I doubt it. I think most of my roles I’ve gotten have very little to do with my ethnicity. I don’t feel that’s a limiting factor for my career.

I’ve had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I’ve been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I’ve worked hard at it and I’ve always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.

It’s hard to know really how it’s going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there’s a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.

When I had no shoes I was comfortable – I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

I don’t want to be ‘Halsey: America’s Sweetheart,’ or ‘Halsey: Bad Girl.’ If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I’ve done something wrong.

So there’s no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you’re reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.

One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can’t quite imagine if you’ve spent your whole career in a corporation.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven’t been the most adored.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I’m aware of that now, which doesn’t give me a lot of pleasure.

You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and – which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.

For so many generations, a woman’s only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

I’ve been through periods of stress, turbulence in the market for over the course of my career, various times, and never in any of those other periods have we had the advantage of a strong economy underpinning the markets.

My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

I suppose after ‘Four Weddings’ I was very busy for a bit, and I imagined that was my career, but I never had that thing of, ‘I’m burning to be an actor. If I don’t act, I’m not alive.’ I’ve never had that.

If you’re going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It’s something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.

My favorite actor that I look up to is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. His career is something I look up to, I just want to be that guy. He’s always part of projects that have a lot of soul and that’s what I want to do as an actor.

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

I’m a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they’ll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They’ll be asking the business community and labor unions.

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.

My dad brought ‘Clerks’ to Sundance 22 years ago, and that’s when his career started.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

There’s no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

You want a career? Do that first. You don’t want to have kids? Then don’t. You don’t want to get married? Then don’t. But once you do something, you’ve got to know that there is compromise.

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it’s about how I can be.

I don’t know how to construct a career that’ll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I’ll be competing with billions of actors who haven’t got false teeth, and who are 25.

It’s easy to make a film, but it’s hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.

I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.

I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career – I’m 41 – and I’m a terrible speller.

No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.

In 2008, Putin’s message was, ‘We aren’t like a Central Asian republic, we aren’t going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions.’ This is all abolished now. The very idea of a governing party and party career, as you have in China, that didn’t work.

Most of the early part of an actor’s career, you do the jobs you get.

I always say that in my career as an actress, I’ve always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.

After being on ‘Oprah’ for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height of my career, I made $3.3 million. Unbelievable. From welfare in the projects to $3.3 million.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn’t control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don’t think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that’s one of the reasons I wasn’t gregarious with the gallery.

A few of the influences on my career so far have been Isamu Noguchi, Irving Penn, and seeing the riots of 1968 in Paris.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence.

Right now in my career, it’s like I’m having more fun than I’ve ever had, so it’s kind of like, ‘Man, I can’t stop now.’

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

When you snatch little pieces of other people’s lives and try to palm them off as your own, that’s more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

I’ve always been a fan of Derek Jeter. Guys that consistently, throughout a long-term career, that not only have success but are very aware of their situation – I really dig that.

I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I’d been lucky if five or 10 people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career.

Prior to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ – the first one in 2003 – I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I’m saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

I’m concentrating on my career, which is my top priority. The rest will follow eventually.

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for ‘Pretty Woman.’

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

If everybody loves you, you must be doing something wrong. It means there’s no button being pushed… The only way that everybody loves you is toward the end of your career.

When I was younger, I thought maybe one day I’d be involved in sport in terms of career.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

What I’ve learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.

When I get to 40, I’m going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get to 40, I would like to see where I’m at in my career because I might want to go, ‘You know what, I’m done. I’m just happy with everything,’ and I’m going to go off my merry way, and I’ll probably never pick up a golf club ever again.

The biggest thing is, if you want it still, you’ll do everything you need to do to make sure you extend your career.

I started to develop my comedy skills when I became resident singer at the Boggery Folk Club in Solihull. My career blossomed from there, and I became a big draw on the folk-club circuit.

Touring has been a major part of my career. I’ve done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night sell-out stint at the Indoor Arena in Birmingham, playing to a total audience of 65,000.

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I’m a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series the other way is that I’m a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.

It was so quick for me on ‘SNL.’ It’s not something I consider to be, like, one of the big spaces in my career.

It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career.

I’ve never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I’ve never had any ambition or thought of what I should be doing or had any idea of what I’d like to do. Never. And still don’t. And if something comes along, I say ‘Fine.’

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn’t have that career, so I don’t have to compete on that level.

One wrong move, and you destroy your career.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn’t leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I’d done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

I wouldn’t trade my career with anybody’s. I’d trade a few movies with Tom Hanks – ‘Apollo 13’ and ‘Forrest Gump’ – but other than that, I love my career.

I think, for sure, ‘Saturday Night Fever’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’ were kind of bookends for – or the pillars of – my career.

I’ve always had a loud mouth, and for that I’ve gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in some big competitions in my career, but being counted out and not being seen as a threat is something I’m used to.

Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.

Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn’t have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn’t have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by – you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.

What a turnaround in sentiment ‘Glee’ exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.

When the ‘Guardian’ is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career… it doesn’t get much nastier than that. And you’ve just got to go, ‘It doesn’t actually matter.’

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

I think a little tidbit I can give you is that I grew up with basically everything handed to me, except for my career. I worked for that.

If I’m enjoying something, I’d like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that’s the way I’m approaching my career now. I’m a total workaholic.

I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, ‘Maybe I’ll find some more drama later on in my career.’

Ideally, that’s what you’ve got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.

When I wrestled Randy Orton, that was probably the biggest match of my career at that point, because that was when I had the other shot at the WWE championship.

Whether I ever become WWE champion in my career, I’m proud of what I’ve done.

I don’t play video games because I know that if I ever started, I’d never be able to maintain a career again.

I hated to miss games… at the height of my career, I missed a lot of games due to… just a hamstring pull. And I hated sitting out. I just hated it. You play for your team, but you also play for the people who attend the games.

Yves Saint Laurent was my first fashion show. I wore his tuxedo. And Helmut Newton was my first photographer, in 1973. I was really very lucky. I had an amazing career.

What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can’t gauge my career by anyone else’s.

Doing a truncated series is like doing a long movie, which allows for a certain artistic freedom. After just 12 episodes, you can take a breather and do other things for your career.

I’ve followed Gary Oldman his whole career… I’ve watched the movies he’s directed, like ‘Nil by Mouth’ – I’ve seen that five times!

I don’t deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.

In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, ‘Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,’ and that we should ‘run at criticism.’

How my film career happened, I don’t know. It was unplanned. I’d been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really ‘The Naked Civil Servant’ in 1975 that put me on the radar.

Early in my career, I wasn’t good in the strike zone early. I was good in the strike zone late, which is not a good thing.

What I did before in my career you can pretty much throw out the window. Out of sight, out of mind.

I hope to have a long career, and I don’t want to be defined by things that aren’t the music.

My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.

I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the ’80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of ‘alright guvnors?’ It wasn’t true to who I was.

Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that’s the true testament to where you are in your career – how many tickets are sold.

I won’t mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I’d say to myself, speed it up a little.

Dr. Quinn’ came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then.

You always want to get better, and I think that will remain true for the rest of my career.

Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.

Over the course of my entire Wolverine career, I went from being a single guy to getting married and having kids, and I think you can see that progression in the way that I treated Wolverine.

As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.

I think everyone at some point in their career would like the opportunity to go back to their alma mater, but from a timing standpoint, it’s just never worked.

Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn’t a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.

You’re always thinking, What’s the next move – the career, the money.

Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that’s possible, but that’s certainly not my intention.

The effect of prizes on one’s career – if that is what to call it – is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one’s writing, however, is nil – otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.

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

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

The word ‘career’ and ‘actor’ really don’t fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

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.

What I’ve learned in my career as an actor is that you’re only as good as your collaborators. The process is many things, but it is wholly collaborative, particularly with something like ‘Westworld,’ which is a 10-episode-per-season gig, and we’re just now on the 7th episode.

I have always been small and one of the smallest heptathletes out there. And earlier in my career, I was faced with coaches and athletes who felt I was too small to be a multi-eventer. It gives you a push to show you can do it.

Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title.

You want the best for your kid, but everybody’s career is completely different in this industry.

Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue.

It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.

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.

Mad Men’ is a hard act to follow. Unless you’re called Elisabeth Moss, stuff like this only comes along once in your career.

We’ve been following Judge Alito’s career over the last 15 years, while he’s been on the Court of Appeals.

My personal life is awesome, but there’s always more to strive for in my career.

I have worked hard in my career, but I have been lucky as well.

I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, ‘Baby I Don’t Care’, was a hit, and the second, ‘Bye Bye Boy’, reached the Top 20.

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I’ll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I’m still hoping though.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

I want to make movies, TV series, wherever the career takes me.

When I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career – the Hall of Fame.

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn’t have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career.

When I was commissioned in the Air Force, I was committed to the institution for a career.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn’t want that. I still wanted to pursue a career – or a life – that my songs provided for me.

I remember watching the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with my nose right up to the screen, knowing there and then that I wanted a sporting career.

I went to a seminar early in my career on the craft of storytelling by Robert McKee. It was really life altering. There are basic principles on how to craft an engaging story and he covers them well. He’s got a book out, ‘Story,’ that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in improve their storytelling.

I want to have a lengthy career. I want to play interesting characters. I want to tell beautiful stories, complex stories, deep stories.

The beginning of my acting career was in London, England.

With my career, considering my age and how much time I’ve been out… how much time I’ve got left, nobody knows.

I’d started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

I’d retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn’t a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don’t forget about you.

When I look back at my career as an author, I don’t look at the first book that was ever published as to where my career began – I look to the first book that I ever wrote.

It sucks to be the runner-up because I’ve been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it’s one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It’s so frustrating at the time, but what’s so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, ‘I’ve got to get better.’

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I’ve played some really great roles.

It’s not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get it’s simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I’d get into, I still would have pursued it.

In a career, when you hit 40 and you’ve done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

I really want to make this the last stop of my career. I don’t want to be a vagabond, so to speak, and be traveling from team to team, year in and year out. I’m not that type of guy. I like to be settled.

I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you’re wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.

Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, ‘Yeh, what a way to go out!’

I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines… I like to lead a very low profile.

I got my degree in theatre at a little school in Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg University. It was one of those situations where I went into the major because I loved it, but didn’t really expect to see it as a moneymaking situation or career.

I’ve had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years.

I spent the bulk of my career on building my company, and Morningstar is where the passion is.

If there’s no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That’s a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

I guess that’s a flaw in my career, that I like to work too much.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you’re not really successful.

The thing early on that you think is ‘wrong’ with you, that makes you not fit in with everyone else, becomes the key to your career as an actor. Start embracing it.

I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.

Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.

As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they’re supposed to happen and the way they’re supposed to happen.

As a director, there’s no natural career progression. So after ‘The Wackness,’ which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.

I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York.

I think I’m always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

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

I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call ‘do-gooder’ things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.

I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

When I signed up for Y&R, my actor friends said, ‘A daytime soap? It’ll kill your career!’ Now they’d trade places with me in a heartbeat.

I’ve kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

I don’t think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that’s what’s truly difficult.

Well, it’s been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on ‘Top Of The Pops,’ I’ve been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it’s just the records that haven’t been very good.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

For actors, when you first get the project and you see that it’s a Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman-produced project, right away, from an acting standpoint, you go, ‘Wow. That’d be great to be part of that. What a career move that’d be.’

I think all players reach a point in their career where it’s natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.

Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.

Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

I have never been someone who applied ‘work begets work’ to my career, sometimes unfortunately.

I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

When you are working really hard and you’re really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Music is the career I’m lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

I started to make some commercials, which was a way for me to finally make a living at last. But it was only really a couple of films in that it looked like a viable career option.

When I’m boxing, if my career isn’t going well, at least I feel mentally and physically strong.

I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on ‘The Human Stain.’ If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he’s achieved, I’ll have had one hell of a career.

When I look back on my career, I go, ‘This is really great, I’ve played so many different women.’

I’ve been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I’ve been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.

I’ve dabbled in period films in my career, and I’ve enjoyed each one.

Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I’m fine with it, it is really organized.