I’m a songwriter and I’d love to make that a part of my career.

There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan’s laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as...

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don’t. That’s fine.

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.

I always get bored with my hair. That’s why I would always change it throughout my career.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don’t see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after ‘The Birdcage.’ I think people just didn’t know what to do with me.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night

Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.

What else can I do? Once you’ve gone this far you aren’t fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You’re overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be...

I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we...

I’m not in any rush to get anywhere. There’s a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it’s over. But everyone wants longevity, don’t they? It’s a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job...

The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn’t go to school for that, but if you’re going to be there anyway, then that’s the most...

Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls...

I think what’s most interesting about me is the work that I do.

I don’t see myself as a full-time broadcaster. I’ve done some of it, and I enjoy it, but I don’t think I should try to make a career out of it.

Love is a career with its own stages, rewards, and failures . . . a vocation as concrete as a calling in the Church, worth giving a lifetime to.

Perfecting is a journey…There is no destination called perfection.

I’m either going to be a writer or a bum.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist’s career.

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don’t have much of a plan, really.

I’m not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn’t worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.

Make sure your LinkedIn profile has a targeted headline. Not only should the headline clearly state your career focus, it’s also the most important place to add a keyword or two, because this influences how...

Cat, I’ll let you in on a little secret. We don’t all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn’t make the work part of it any easier…It just makes...

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

There are a lot of actors who don’t like reality stars ’cause they feel these people aren’t accomplished. They haven’t done this or that, but they are savvy. They have found a way to make...

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don’t even know where you...

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested...

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type...

I realize that although I’d like to make films as a career after I’m done playing, I really love basketball; I really love my career, an opportunity to compete every day and to push myself...

You can’t be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ‘Holy Christ, whaddya know – I’m still around!’ It’s absolutely amazing that I survived all...

Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a ‘means of livelihood’ while he waits to discover his ‘true vocation’. The world...

The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.

Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

I don’t feel typecast almost at all, and it could just be because I’m insensitive, but I doubt it. I think most of my roles I’ve gotten have very little to do with my ethnicity....

It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure...

There’s never been any game plan or thread through my career. It’s just happened that I’ve ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

Obviously, I’ve been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I’ve been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the...

You survived as a child because others helped to maintain your life. It continues to be true today, even when you think you are abandoned, rejected, neglected, and unloved: the tomatoes you eat sustain you,...

I know my career is going badly because I’m being quoted correctly.

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.