Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

Al Franken

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

Aimee Garcia

Im dating a very high-maintenance career.

Aimee Mann

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

Channing Tatum

With my career in general, I feel like I'm finally getting to do the roles that I've always wanted to do. It's a slow build; you can't ever get the roles that you want in the beginning of your career because you don't have the buzz or the heat, or whatever the hell it is you need for the agents and the studios to be happy.

Channing Tatum

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.

Artie Lange

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.

Artie Lange

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.

Artie Lange

I had a career before the Stern show, on Mad TV. I was on the first two seasons of that and I got kicked off it because of possession of cocaine.

Arjen Robben

Manchester United? That's not an option. I am staying at Bayern Munich. Period. I had a great time under Van Gaal at Bayern, he has been very important for my career but I am very happy at my current club.

Anushka Sharma

I dont work for production houses. I only work for good scripts and roles. If you follow my career graph, you will find that I have not given a single flop yet in my career. I am proud of it.

Brock Yates

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.

Edward Rutherfurd

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.

Edward Norton

If there's a criteria that really gets me interested in a work besides any type of personal interaction with the theme, it's if I feel like this is the right piece of work for that director at that moment in their career.

Courtney Love

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

Colin Hay

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

Colin Quinn

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

Gherman Titov

We thought our careers as cosmonauts - we were young then - would end with a flight to Mars. But, you see, life has made some course corrections.

Billy Collins

Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.

Aidan Gillen

I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.

Sylvester McCoy

Variety has always been in my mind: to do something totally different. I've had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track, the TV and film, the other, theatre, but they never crossed.

Hugh Jackman

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

Clayton Christensen

In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.

Claire Danes

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.

Claire Danes

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

Clint Eastwood

That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.

Danny Strong

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.

Don Howe

I can honestly say that retiring will put years on his career.

Dylan McDermott

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.

Dylan Moran

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

Dylan Moran

I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

Douglas Booth

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

Douglas Adams

Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your th and th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.