Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jewel

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.

Jewel

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

Jerry Springer

Take care of yourselves, and each other

Jerzy Kosinski

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

Jeff Beck

I would have loved to have been two people, but I was determined not to devote my entire life to my career.

Jeaniene Frost

...you don't care because you're all that and I'm just an artery in a dress.

George Eliot

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

Geoffrey Rush

I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.

Gary Sinise

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

Gary Oldman

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.

Frank Carson

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Francoise Hardy

If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career

Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.

George Herbert

Good is god, but better carries it.

George Herbert

Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.

Chris Hedges

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

Chris Hardwick

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

Christoph Waltz

I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.

Christoph Waltz

I had to learn how to drive a cement truck because there is a whole car chase with cement trucks, so I had to learn how to drive a cement truck. I don't like these things, but I'm not an idiot. I can do it.

Christine Gregoire

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Lahti

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

Christian Morgenstern

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

Christian Bale

Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.

Christian Bale

I started my career without fans.

Christian Bale

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

Christian Bale

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

Chris Vance

As things have progressed and I've gotten older, I've gotten more and more involved on the producing side. It's been a natural progression. The more you become exposed in a particular medium, the more you can bring to the table and people start trusting you. You're valued a little bit more, so you have more of a voice. It's something I would like to do, through the rest of my career.

Chris Tucker

I told a joke and people laughed and it was the best feeling. I knew I wanted to do this as a career. I never knew I could get such a high from telling a joke. There's something so extraordinary about having people listening to you and hanging onto your words - it's a great feeling.

Chris Tucker

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

Chris Pine

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

Chris Kirkpatrick

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.

Faith Evans

Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.