Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.

Raymond Burr

I only hope that I can regain my own identity once I decide that 'Perry Mason' and myself have come to the parting of the road. 'Perry Mason' has become a career for me... all I know is that I work, eat and sleep 'Perry Mason.'

Rick Wakeman

Since the 1980s, I've been known more for my TV work, I used to host 'Live at Jongleurs' and of course 'Grumpy Old Men,' and so it's really all come from there. It's been a funny career really, there are people that know me now as a TV person, a comedian, an interviewer - I've had people genuinely gobsmacked to find out I am a musician.

Paul Provenza

Career is a mindset. The wrong mindset. Career is linear. Especially when you are trapped in the TV or film world. The next thing you do has always got to be bigger, or it is perceived as a failure.

We have the opposite problem at Ford Motor Company. Right now, we have approximately 700 technician graduates who have been trained through our technical career entry programs and are now looking for employment.

Michael Myers

We have talked a lot about getting a new beginning, ... We don't ever want to be apart. We want to end our careers here.

We were hoping for a better season from him, and I'm sure the Giants were hoping for a better season from Alfonzo as well. Neither had career years. I talked to Steve and I know he's working as hard as ever.

You are fighting for your career up there. You are fighting for your name.

We have careers advisers who say to youngsters 'you need to go to university'. That is arrant nonsense.

With The Unicorns, we really got thrust into a career out of nowhere. We started touring and it was really tough for the first several months. All of a sudden, one good Pitchfork review, and we were selling out shows left, right and center. It was a real whirlwind, and I think Alden just wanted to back off somewhat.

Paul Anka

Those guys, I won't mention names, they needed Vegas because they didn't have a career on the outside. Michael is doing well everywhere, and the longer you hold off coming into Vegas with success on the exterior, the better off it is. He will stick, without question.

You always wonder how your career could've gone. I wish I would've had the opportunity to play every day when I was younger, just to see what kind of player I could've been.

Marcelo Balboa

You always want to end your career in the jersey you started, ... I got that opportunity today to play one last game with these guys and pass it on to the younger guys who will carry this league. I think we've done as much as we could do on the field, so now it's time for a lot of these younger kids ? the Eddie Gavins, Landon Donovans, DeMarcus Beasleys ? to take the reins. We can work on the outside ? become the coaches, the GMs, the guys who run U.S. Soccer.

Ray Allen

We got away with one. That was something where I was like, 'Well, what can you do?' I can recall plenty of games in my career where I was on the opposite side of that.

Jeremy Sisto

Well, I was coming off of being on 'Law & Order,' and I was a little worried that it might be the end of my career - I've never been one of those actors with a lot of confidence that the next good job will come along.

Russell Crowe

Well, it's a great privilege, mate, ... It sort of puts me in a category for the rest of my career that I'm very thankful for.

Martina Hingis

I was never happy my injuries cut my career short and ultimately forced my decision to step away from tennis,

Pat Bowlen

I would like Mike to coach out his career here. What's left on his contract or not left on his contract is not the issue. I think Mike is at the top of the coaching ladder and I think he'll stay there. So there's no reason for me to be thinking about changing head coaches. That thought never crosses my mind, and I don't think it ever will.

Rashard Lewis

I would love to finish my career in Houston, to be back in front of the hometown fans and in front of my family. You never know what can happen. I'm happy in Seattle right now. But at the same time, there's no place like home.

Michael Caine

My career is going better now than when I was younger. It used to be that I'd get the girl but not the part. Now I get the part but not the girl.

Tim Curry

My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to... stomach.

Shirley Knight

My career has been odd in the sense that I did a lot of films early in my career and then for years I only worked in the theater in New York.

My career ended when I was 9 years old. It's been a long time. Like everything else in The Villages, there's something you always wanted to do, and here you get the chance.

Steve Mariucci

My career can wait, and I want to enjoy more time at home.

Mary Roach

Most of the people who are engaged in the subjects that I look into are pretty interesting. Whether its sex researchers or someone who's devoted their career to saliva or somebody who does research with cadavers, there's an inherent fascination in the subject matter of their work.

Most of my career has been spent in countries where children are not well off.

Gareth Edwards

Who knows? Injury plays a big part in most people's careers but only time will tell if he can return to the way we all remember him,

Jim Calhoun

When that game ended, I knew I had tied Don Haskins in career wins. That was a special moment for me that I didn't share with people, but it was nice to know I tied him.

Jeff Smith

You can go your whole career without going into a new station.

John Polson

You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another.

You just remind him that careers are just that, they're careers,

Jim Furyk

Winning golf tournaments is what's important to me. If I said that, even though I've had a decent career and 10 wins, you would probably think I was pretty darn arrogant.

E. P. Thompson

Winona Ryder is no Fatty Arbuckle. I don't think this will do her career a lot of harm.