Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esa-Pekka Salonen

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

Goran Ivanisevic

When I started in my career, my sister was very sick so I play for her because we didn't have money.

Goldie Hawn

So each time you do a shift in your life, right, or you do a change in your life, then sometimes it feels like it's not gonna happen. And your career is not gonna do well. And the next thing you know is that these choices that you make actually catapult you to the next level.

Goldie Hawn

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

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.

Guy Forget

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

Gemma Ward

Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.

Gary McCord

My career started slowly and then tapered off.

Gale Sayers

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

Fred Funk

Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back.

Eric Cantona

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

Eric Cantona

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

Enya

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

Enrique Iglesias

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Geoffrey Rush

I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.

Gary Sinise

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

Gary Oldman

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

Francoise Hardy

If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career

Chris Hedges

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

Christine Gregoire

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Lahti

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

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.