Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Rock

Stand-up is the only career like that where once you get really big at it, people kind of encourage you not to do it.

Chris Matthews

President [Barack]Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.

Chris Froome

At this point in my career I feel that the Tour takes priority. There may come a time at some point down the line where other races may take preference, but for 2015, it`s the Tour.

Fran Tarkenton

Television isn't my career. Business is.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Noel Fisher

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

Misha Collins

There are shows, a lot of small cable shows like Breaking Bad, where in the general population nobody watches them really, but everybody in Los Angeles in the industry watches them, and to get a small role on a show like that actually, in some respects, advances your career more than having a huge hit role on a genre show because they are somehow dismissed as a secondary market in this industry

Mitch Albom

We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

Mike Tyson

My career has been over since 1990.

Rick Santorum

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

Stephen Collins

The drug trafficking careers of 16 individuals ended today. This organization has completely been dismantled.

Edward Albee

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

Holland Taylor

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

Holland Taylor

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

Holly Hunter

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none

Holly Hunter

I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way

Jonathan Lethem

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

Jon Secada

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

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.

Kate Winslet

If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career

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.

Lenny Kravitz

I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.

Lee Hazlewood

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

LaToya London

Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.

Larisa Oleynik

If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.

Lara Flynn Boyle

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.