Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alex Winter

It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

Alexa Vega

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

Alex Lifeson

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.

Drew Bledsoe

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

Doug Liman

Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.

Donna Air

I was starstruck by Madonna. She's one of the few remaining superstars. I'm so impressed by her level of discipline towards her career. We did have a little chat, and she wasn't remotely intimidating, just lovely and open.

Donald E. Graham

The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.

Donald Cram

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

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.

Donnie Wahlberg

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

Donnie Wahlberg

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.

Don Rickles

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

Corbin Bleu

I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

Andy Grove

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Amy Pascal

I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.

Allen Iverson

God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.

Alison Sweeney

Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.

Alicia Machado

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.

Alicia Machado

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

Anthony Jeselnik

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and do exactly what I wanted to do. That way I would never have to change for anybody.

Andrea Bocelli

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.

Robert B. Laughlin

The experience that firmly placed me on a course toward a professional career in science was the four years I spent as an undergraduate at Berkeley.

George Vecsey

What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?

Vitali Klitschko

The decision to end was hard to make. But I would like to end my career on top and with my retirement make the way free for my successor.

Agatha Christie

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

Adam Shankman

I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.