Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Tucker

I told a joke and people laughed and it was the best feeling. I knew I wanted to do this as a career. I never knew I could get such a high from telling a joke. There's something so extraordinary about having people listening to you and hanging onto your words - it's a great feeling.

Chris Tucker

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

Chris Kirkpatrick

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

Faith Evans

Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.

George Strait

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

George R. R. Martin

It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and downs.

Gene Tierney

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

Famke Janssen

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Eve Arnold

I had in mind a long career.

Francis Ford Coppola

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. I didn't make that money necessarily from the film business, but I eventually made a lot of money and that's what I do. Of course, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate, and I'm pretty content with my life.

Frances McDormand

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I've always been on loan before in my career and Leicester haven't given permission for me to play.

I wanted it to be big, ... Not about a person or a career but about the time. ... I wanted to use a game of his (to highlight) and there's nothing quite like a perfect game.

Ray Liotta

I wanted to go that way and really get proactive with my career - take some control in it and redirect it in a direction that I liked.

Gary Stevens

I've had a wonderful career over the years and it's time to hang it up.

Richard Roeper

I've heard from people who have said some of the nicest things I've ever heard in my career and I've heard vicious things, ... But, hey, we're doing the same thing to the movies every week, so if I can't take it I'd better deal.

I've had my fair share of career accomplishments, and this ranks right up there in the top three, ... I'm truly humbled by this.

I've known Rich a long time, and we'll always be friends. You would wish that everyone in their working career would have that kind of working relationship and a friendship, because it just makes it work.

I've had a long career in the NBA and have enjoyed my experience.

I've got a pretty sour taste in my mouth right now. It's a tough one to walk away from. My career as a ski racer has been pretty amazing. On these big race days, you go through a lot of highs and lows.

Jason Giambi

I've got some hits the last two days, and I've done well, but it wasn't any kind of miracle. I wish it would have changed my career stats, but it doesn't.

I've enjoyed the experience today. We battled all night long. I'm sure in a couple days or weeks I'll look back and be able to look at my whole career and realize the things we did.

Bret Boone

I'm prepared for this; I know what it will take, because I've had a weird career full of ups and downs.

Curtis Joseph

I'm probably not looking at a five-year plan, but I'll look at it year to year and if I'm having fun and if I'm contributing at the level I expect, then I'll keep playing. But I also have family considerations that weigh much more importantly in my career now than they did say five years ago.

I mostly needed the money. I really wasn't sure that it would be a career thing at that time. I wasn't sure what it involved. When you're about a sophomore in school, you don't always know what you want.

Jeff Daniels

I moved to Michigan in 1986 after 10 years in New York, ... Whatever star I had was rising (at the time), but Kathleen and I made the decision that family would come first and career second. We stuck to it. That means I was on airplanes; that means I didn't do movies back to back to back; that means I lived in a part of the country that is unglamorous. I wasn't around to go to other people's premieres. I was not in L.A. or Hollywood. I was in Michigan.

Tommy Haas

I'm playing really good, really confident. Maybe I will win the first title of my career here.

Fiona Apple

My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

Fiona Apple

I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.

Cat Stevens

My career is there for everyone to see and delve into.

Cassandra Clare

I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials," said Will. "And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we've eaten.

Everybody's career has ups and downs and times when they're not playing well, and Steve is going through a tough time right now. We just can't seem to put our fingers on what is causing it all right now.

Super G is kind of where my ski racing career started.