Careers Quotes · Page 37

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

— Maureen O'Hara

I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.

— James Murphy

You give until they can't live without it. That's how careers are built.

— Russell Simmons

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

— Susannah McCorkle

My life and my career have been a series of happy and not so happy accidents.

— Jeff Ross

Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.

— Christina Ricci

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

— Jesse Ventura

It's always useful to be in big movies for one's career.

— Jeremy Irons

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an…

— Alan Moore

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

— Suzanne Farrell

I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me,…

— Marc Almond

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes…

— Paul Johnson

You want bold? Ask the hundreds of defensive backs I ran over during my career if they think I'm bold.

— Jerome Bettis

Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've…

— Robert Englund

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

— Joni Mitchell

It's like the most profound accomplishment that I've had in my career, that I can finally be that voice.

— Lake Bell

What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and…

— Paul Walker

There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to…

— David Galenson

First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as…

— Adolf Hitler

My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the…

— Daniel Fried

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well,…

— John Travolta

I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence…

— Benicio Del Toro

I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and…

— Harry Melling

As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of…

— Corey Taylor

I used to wonder why God used a prop like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to inflict guilt on…

— Jon Rappoport

“I had pictured the corporate world that I seek to enter as a castle on a hill, outside of which the starving…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

If something is important enough to you that you feel the urge to donate your money or time to it, I think…

— Steve Pavlina

I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes…

— Stephen Hawking

The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds…

— Francois Arago

This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the…

— David Brooks

Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Well you always want to play against the best. That's what you're going to get in the Super Bowl. To go against…

— Russell Wilson

I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.

— Diana Ross

The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.

— Emily Dickinson

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

— Chord Overstreet

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

— Mason Cooley

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

— Anonymous

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career.

— Michelle Obama

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

— Steve Guttenberg