Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Ali

The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

Mark Viduka

For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.

Marian Seldes

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.

Mickey Mantle

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

Nicholas Hoult

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

Nathan Myhrvold

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

Mitt Romney

Right now, we have an economy in trouble. And, someone who spent their career in the economy is more suited to help fix the economy than someone who spent his life in POLITICS and as a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.

Preity Zinta

I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.

Neil Young

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

Rachel Nichols

I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

Neon Hitch

I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.

Joely Fisher

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

Joe Morton

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

Ken Buck

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

Kirby Dick

The closet exists because people don't talk about it, so that people going into political careers make a calculation early on. They say to themselves, "well, the closet is under the radar, I can do this."

Olivia Williams

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

Olivia Wilde

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

Oliver Kahn

It looked pretty wild, but I was actually in control of myself. I've never really injured anyone throughout my career.

Oliver Kahn

I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely on performance.

Marc Almond

I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually harms your career.

Kiefer Sutherland

Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.

Kid Rock

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

Kenny Loggins

It's difficult to get an audience to want to keep up with you, stay present tense. But there's never been a big lag in my career between product. I've constantly tried to pull my audience up into what I'm doing present tense, and they've been usually happy to go there with me.

Kenny Loggins

In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.

Kelly Bishop

One of the greatest pleasures of working on shows is that I enjoy watching the actors - who are all younger than me now - and their careers. I love seeing how they're doing and seeing them getting good gigs and doing well.

Katie Finneran

I really feel that the thing that I love the most about my career is that it is so eclectic. You know, I've gone from so many genres and so many different mediums and I love that most - that people have always given me the chance to do vastly different things.

Lake Bell

It's like the most profound accomplishment that I've had in my career, that I can finally be that voice.

Paul McGann

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

Paul Hirsch

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.

Mae West

In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.

Madonna Ciccone

Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I'm totally in control.

Madonna Ciccone

I didn't really give a sh** what's going on in the rest of the world. I just didn't. I just wanted to focus on me, me, me, my career, my life, just me - blinders.