Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haley Barbour

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

Halle Berry

In Monster's Ball I went nude, which was scary, but I took the chance and that's how I like to approach my career.

Holt McCallany

I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice.

Iggy Azalea

At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change—that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

Ian Mckellen

It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It`s very distressing to me that that should be the case. The film industry is very old fashioned in California.

Ian Mckellen

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

Iain Sinclair

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.

Howard Keel

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.

Matt Hasselbeck

He's meant a lot to us, in our careers and as a friend. It looked like he was having a lot of fun. If he does choose to go out that way, it's a great way to go out.

Alison Moyet

I chose not to work. It was one of those sticky things that happen in people's careers when you have been around for a long time.

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.

Andrew Luck

It's hard not to follow other careers of NFL quarterbacks in the 24/7 news-at-your-fingertips society we live in.

Ian Hart

I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

Hugh Howey

Living frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career.

Hugh Jackman

My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'

Janet Evanovich

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.

Christian Bale

Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.

Christian Bale

I started my career without fans.

Christian Bale

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

Christian Bale

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

Chris Vance

As things have progressed and I've gotten older, I've gotten more and more involved on the producing side. It's been a natural progression. The more you become exposed in a particular medium, the more you can bring to the table and people start trusting you. You're valued a little bit more, so you have more of a voice. It's something I would like to do, through the rest of my career.

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.

I know there will always be careers there. There's never going to be less demand, being a doctor.

Moss Hart

One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.

Jon Stewart

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.

Jon Stewart

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

Katey Sagal

I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

Kate Winslet

I would never accept a role that wasn't going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I'd say Holy Smoke! probably did that more than anything I'd ever done. It took me to places I didn't actually know I could go to, and that's what I want my career to be all about.