I was used to having a job - ballet was my job, and I felt…

When you're really serious about ballet, it's a job - even if you're 15 years old. You're doing it six to eight hours a day.

— Margaret Qualley

I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and…

— Margaret Qualley

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.

— Carol Burnett

In the process of making the record, I was just so bored all the time working whatever stupid job. I felt like a stagnant…

— Josh Jones

I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago,…

— Dayna Devon

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love…

— Barbara Stanwyck

“JOHN SHUT OFF the part of himself that cared about his job. He felt so much better now that he’d made a conscious decision…

— Choire Sicha

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

— Barbara Stanwyck

It's a normal part of the culture of ballet to go to a nutritionist in your first few weeks. They write down everything you…

— Margaret Qualley

I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.

— Alicia Vikander

Ballet, there's a right way to do things, and it's black and white, and it's all striving for perfection. Acting is not that way.…

— Margaret Qualley

School is just like having a job. You have to show up, you have to do your work, and you have to be around…

— Elizabeth Scott

And I love having the job to go to every week. With movies, there's a lot of downtime. I like working, and television really…

— Margo Martindale

I don't think anything motivates you more than not having a job.

— Carson Palmer

I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job.

— Owen Farrell