Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alec Baldwin

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

Alia Shawkat

I'm not at the place in my career necessarily where I'm like offered every role.

Ali Larter

I feel really lucky that, in my career, I've gotten a chance to explore a lot of different genres and kinds of films.

Alexander Hanson

Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

Adam Dunn

It's always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I'm just another Dunn to them.

Adam Brody

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

Angus T. Jones

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

Angus T. Jones

What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

Anita Baker

I need my career. That's what validates me.

Donald Miller

It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

Dolly Parton

I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

Dolly Parton

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

Dick Murphy

I want to be mayor, but I don’t need to be mayor. I’m not a career politician.

Dermot Mulroney

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

Delia Smith

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

Deepak Chopra

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Debbie Macomber

Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.

Dean Norris

Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.

Deborah Bull

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

Amber Tamblyn

I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.

Amber Tamblyn

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

Anthony LaPaglia

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

Anthony Mackie

I work out every day just to keep in shape. I feel like I never want to get stuck in a position where when you need somebody with great arms, you call Anthony Mackie. That hasn't been the calling card for my career, and nor do I want it to be.

Cindy Margolis

I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters.

Cicely Tyson

I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.

Chuck Norris

My whole goal in my film career is to project a positive image on the screen, that I hope people will enjoy watching.

Alex Winter

It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

Alexa Vega

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

Alex Lifeson

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

Drew Bledsoe

I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.

Doug Liman

Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.

Donna Air

I was starstruck by Madonna. She's one of the few remaining superstars. I'm so impressed by her level of discipline towards her career. We did have a little chat, and she wasn't remotely intimidating, just lovely and open.

Donald E. Graham

The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.