Famous Quotes & Sayings

LaVell Edwards

Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career It has turned out a whole lot better than I ever, ever, ever dreamed.

Laura Lippman

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

Lance Bass

I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

Lisa Rinna

I never had a career before I had the lips, so my lips have had their own career!

Lisa Kudrow

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed

John Travolta

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13 and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

John Travolta

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

John Surtees

I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.

John Rhys-Davies

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

John Otway

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

James Gosling

I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I met some folks outside doing something completely outrageous, and after much anguish decided to leave Google.

Laura Dern

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

Lana Parrilla

When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

George Foreman

No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn't see it until I saw it on film when I woke up!

Jon Krakauer

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

Johnny Winter

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

Johnny Evers

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

Johnny Weissmuller

Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.

Johnny Ramone

I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

Lucas Black

No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.

Louis Menand

I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment, about the difficulty of getting tenure, and generally about the perception that undergraduates have, that this is a very high-risk career to get started.

Rafael Nadal

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

Nina Jacobson

I was an executive before I was a producer, and I've seen franchise fever grow, over the course of my career. The one thing that people always forget is that it's only a franchise if audiences really want to see more of it. It's up to them. It's really not up to us.

Nolan Ryan

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

Nicole Kidman

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

Nicole Kidman

I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

Nastia Liukin

I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.

Myron Scholes

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

Morris Chestnut

Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.

Miranda Hart

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

Miranda Lambert

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.

Miranda Lambert

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

Miranda Kerr

For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.