Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Murphy

I want to be mayor, but I don’t need to be mayor. I’m not a career politician.

Dermot Mulroney

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

Delia Smith

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

Deepak Chopra

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.

Debbie Macomber

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.

Dean Norris

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.

Deborah Bull

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

Amber Tamblyn

I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.

Amber Tamblyn

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

Anthony LaPaglia

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

Anthony Mackie

I work out every day just to keep in shape. I feel like I never want to get stuck in a position where when you need somebody with great arms, you call Anthony Mackie. That hasn't been the calling card for my career, and nor do I want it to be.

Cindy Margolis

I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters.

Cicely Tyson

I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.

Chuck Norris

My whole goal in my film career is to project a positive image on the screen, that I hope people will enjoy watching.

Amitabh Bachchan

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Anthony Bourdain

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

Anthony Bourdain

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

Angela Bassett

Acting is my calling, not my career.

Amanda Marshall

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

Anne Hathaway

My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

Chuck Klosterman

Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was no Internet at all, and now when I finish it, there will be nothing but the Internet.

Christopher Walken

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

Anne Sweeney

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

Annette Funicello

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

Angela Lansbury

I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.

Angela Lansbury

I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.

Angela Lansbury

The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.

Anna Friel

It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.

Anita Hill

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

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

Amelie Mauresmo

There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.

Andy Murray

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.