Get yourself into something that you don’t have passion for and feel like an idiot always.

You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. That would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet, you can turn that into a career.

It’s crazy how you hear the story of The Tortoise and the Hare while growing up, and assume it’s just a nice thing to tell kids—and then you start your career and watch it actually...

Helping others fulfill their dreams seems like an easy way to keep from living your own.

Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you’re offered. If you’re big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in...

You are all so good and I wish I were better. Now get out of here because I want to be where you are.

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and...

If I had not passed through trial – through passion, one could say – through these years so painful and so rich, I don’t believe I could take on my life and my career as...

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

Really, throughout my career, what I’ve done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I’ve made them better.

If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the ‘child actors argument’.

I was always in trouble for chatting. My school reports all used to say, ‘Donna is a very bright girl, but she must stop talking in class.’ In the end, I made a career out...

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

I had a lot of time to think in the service; I swore that, if I survived, nothing would keep me from an acting career.

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn’t have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me....

I was very insecure at the beginning of my career. I didn’t value my talent. I would have probably skipped signing up for movies that I didn’t want to do if I had understood that...

I used to dye my hair different colors and have crazy periods, especially early in my career when I played in Italy.

I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they’ll open up the door to...

There’s a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.

When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.

I wouldn’t mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I’ve learned in my career and applying that to another person’s.

So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists – when you’re an author, you can be any of these things, and you don’t need a...

It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn’t his fault,...

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of...

The standard of a true leader is that he sets also his own rules rather than merely and blindly obeying the set of standard rules, even if it means being treated as an idiot or...

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it’d be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time.

Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.

I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, ‘Chris, you have a strange career.’

There are two types of people in life when it comes to their careers: people who visualize, and people who imitate. The people who visualize paint their own vision of what their mark is in...

Friends are really important, especially when you’ve had the successes that I’ve had. I’ve gone really far in my career, so they’re the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

I’m not a career woman.

Getting to this point hasn’t always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that...

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big – that’s the only way to get it… I just couldn’t stand being anonymous.

I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I’ve given everything that I’ve got.

If you don’t have the right support form the right people you are always going to be the best choice and not the preferred choice.

If you look at my career, I kind of got progressively better and better and better. I came closer to the top.

I couldn’t find my cup of tea.So probably, I’ve been simply taking a sip from everyone else’s cup. May be it shouldn’t matter as long as there is tea to drink. Or should it?

Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder...

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people’s confidences out.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn’t plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is...

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career...

I’m used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

Don’t go through life with a closed mind. Allow innovations and creativity to flow. We should always challenge ourselves to excel in more ways than one. Be open to ideas or suggestions on how to...