Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Beckinsale

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

Kate Beckinsale

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

Justin Timberlake

To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.

Justin Timberlake

I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.

Julie Andrews

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

Judith Orloff

Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.

Josh Hartnett

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

Josh Hartnett

I guess I will probably produce a little bit more. For me it's a career, you create as you go along and you can't worry about always being on top.

Josh Hutcherson

Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.

Katherine Dunham

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

Katherine Dunham

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

Katherine Heigl

Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

Katherine Heigl

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

John C. Maxwell

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

Harvey Keitel

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.

Gene Wilder

I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

Sonja Sohn

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

Steve Jobs

Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.

Steve Coogan

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

Stephen Fry

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

Jimmy Carter

I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying.

Phil Mickelson

I have not found my perspective on my career change. What I have found is that my life in general has been more fulfilling. To be able to influence an individual's life and on who they become as a person is a very rewarding feeling.

Questlove

For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.

Preston Sturges

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.

Prince Royce

Fans have been very important in my career. Even though I'm just doing me and doing my thing, they're the captains of this ship.

Terrence Howard

I knew that one movie could either kill my career or give birth to it. It's the same thing with Nelson. If you fail at Nelson [movie about nelson Mandela], you don't get to comeback and say, 'Well, I was trying. Let me do it again.' There are no re-takes.

Terence Stamp

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

Ted Yoho

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

Randolph Scott

I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.

The company's goals are just that -- goals. No professional is going to risk lives and his career to meet goals arbitrarily set by the company.

Robert Duvall

If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

Richard LaGravenese

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

Richard Carmona

In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.