Quotes on Career

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

Author: Jack Abramoff

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

Author: Dan Abrams

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

Author: Victoria Abril

I'm not a career woman.

Author: June Allyson

I started a big part of my career in Vegas.

Author: Louie Anderson

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

Author: Victoria Angeles

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

Author: Victoria Angeles

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

Author: Desi Arnaz

I never pursued a career relentlessly.

Author: Armand Assante

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

Author: Ginger Baker

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.

Author: Christine Baranski

My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

Author: Ed Belfour

We want to christen every city that Kris has played in during his professional career.

Author: Anna Benson

I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.

Author: Michael Biehn

Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.

Author: Cilla Black

I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though.

Author: Jimmy Black

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

Author: Orlando Bloom

Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career.

Author: Orlando Bloom

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

Author: William Booth

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

Author: Caprice Bourret

My whole career - I have been really lucky.

Author: Caprice bourret

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Author: Louise Brooks

I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

Author: Bear Bryant

I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.

Author: Harold Budd

I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career.

Author: John Cameron

My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.

Author: Matt Cameron

I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.

Author: Duane Carey

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

Author: Kitty Carlisle

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

Author: Mary Carpenter

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

Author: Jim Carrey

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

Author: Jim Carrey

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

Author: Vinton Cerf

I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.

Author: Wilt Chamberlain

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Author: Charlie Chaplin

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

Author: Josh Charles

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

Author: Hillary Clinton

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

Author: Gary Cole

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.

Author: Dabney Coleman

High School Musical is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.

Author: Monique Coleman

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

Author: Judy Collins

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

Author: Stephen Collins

My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs.

Author: Tim Conway

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.

Author: Gerry Cooney

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

Author: Gerry Cooney

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

Author: Donald Cram

I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it.

Author: Mary Crosby

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.

Author: Sheryl Crow

The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.

Author: Penelope Cruz

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

Author: Tony Curtis

Fans made me. The fans gave me a chance, and they made me. Beyond that, my career has been trials and tribulations and ups and downs, so I have to have true fans riding with me.

Author: Puff Daddy

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

Author: Jim Dale

He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else.

Author: Hugh Dalton

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

Author: Chuck Daly

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

Author: Matt Damon

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.

Author: Claire Danes

I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.

Author: Ron Darling

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

Author: Judy Davis

I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.

Author: Kristin Davis

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.

Author: Marc Davis

His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.

Author: Marc Davis

You've got to build a career and a practice.

Author: Robin Day

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

Author: Taylor Dayne

I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!

Author: Nigel Dennis

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

Author: Leonardo DiCaprio

You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.

Author: Larry Dixon

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

Author: Placido Domingo

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

Author: Placido Domingo

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.

Author: Thomas Dooley

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

Author: Faye Dunaway

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

Author: Dick Ebersol

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important.

Author: Dennis Eckersley

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.

Author: Dennis Eckersley

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

Author: James Ellroy

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

Author: John Elway

I don't wish my career on anyone.

Author: John Entwistle

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

Author: Enya

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

Author: Richard Ernst

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.

Author: Jim Evans

Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.

Author: Brett Favre

You want the best for your kid, but everybody's career is completely different in this industry.

Author: Joely Fisher

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

Author: Carlton Fisk

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Author: F. Fitzgerald

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Author: Jane Fonda

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

Author: Harrison Ford

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

Author: Harrison Ford

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

Author: Robbie Fowler

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

Author: Robbie Fowler

I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed.

Author: Pauline Frederick

I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.

Author: David Friedman

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

Author: David Friedman

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

Author: David Friedman

I'm in the facial-hair phase of my career.

Author: Paul Gallagher

I really want to make this the last stop of my career. I don't want to be a vagabond, so to speak, and be traveling from team to team, year in and year out. I'm not that type of guy. I like to be settled.

Author: Jeff Garcia

I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career.

Author: Teri Garr

I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

Author: Leif Garrett

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.

Author: Newt Gingrich

Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.

Author: David Ginola

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

Author: David Ginola

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

Author: Tom Glazer

I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.

Author: Tom Glazer

Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.

Author: John Glover

Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today.

Author: Mark Goddard

And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.

Author: Whoopi Goldberg

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Author: Sue Grafton

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

Author: Alan Greenspan

Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40.

Author: Melanie Griffith

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

Author: Steve Guttenberg

If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.

Author: Sammy Hagar

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

Author: Sammy Hagar

You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.

Author: Marvin Hagler

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

Author: David Halberstam

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

Author: Tom Hall

I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39.

Author: Tim Hardaway

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

Author: Ed Harris

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

Author: George Harrison

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

Author: Randy Harrison

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

Author: Phil Hartman

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

Author: Ernie Harwell

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

Author: Lee Hazlewood

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

Author: Buck Henry

I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.

Author: Natasha Henstridge

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

Author: Auberon Herbert

I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career.

Author: Anita Hill

If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.

Author: Damon Hill

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

Author: Dana Hill

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

Author: Paul Hirsch

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

Author: Katie Holmes

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

Author: Rupert Holmes

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

Author: Marilyn Horne

I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too.

Author: William Hung

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.

Author: Charlie Hunnam

I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency.

Author: E. Hunt

I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right.

Author: Jerry Hunt

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

Author: John Hurt

For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially.

Author: John Hutton

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

Author: Peter Jackson

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

Author: Wanda Jackson

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

Author: Brion James

Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?

Author: Brion James

Success isn't just about climbing the ladder, it's about building a ladder that leads to your true passions.

Author: Lilly Singh

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

Author: Louise Jameson

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Author: Famke Janssen

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

Author: Al Jarreau

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

Author: Al Jarreau

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio.

Author: Al Jarreau

I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

Author: Bruce Jenner

I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.

Author: Kevin Johnson

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

Author: Mother Jones