Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dabney Coleman

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

Dabney Coleman

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.

Connie Chung

I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!

Condola Rashad

Im a songwriter and Id love to make that a part of my career.

Colin Hanks

I never had any idea that I would have a career quite honestly. You never really have any idea what is going to happen. You have an idea of what you would like to happen.

Dan Quayle

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.

Daniel Nathans

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

Colson Whitehead

I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am in my career, or what I'm supposed to be doing. In fact, I'm not supposed to be doing anything. Just finding projects that are challenging to me. I want to be a writer who keeps growing and figuring out new things and hopefully people will follow me along as I publish these things.

Cliff Martinez

I'm not in a position in my career where I turn things down. I'm very easy. So the projects often dictate the direction you will go in. I welcome things that challenge me.

Cliff Richard

It's important to put all I have into my career.

Cliff Richard

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Davy Jones

The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

David Spade

It's hard to have a career.

David Spade

It wasn't a cutdown to call someone a Mexican. It would kill my career to refer to someone as Mexican today. It's like calling me an American.

David Platt

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it’s needed most?

David Henrie

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

David Halberstam

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.