Career Quote by Kumail Nanjiani Download Open image “My parents don't really understand my career. They don't really bring it up that much.” — Kumail Nanjiani ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Career Much Parenting Parents Understand Up
Obviously my parents have been a massive influence on me my whole career, taking me around everywhere and putting me in this position. — Judd Trump Copy Share Image
My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Once you succeed at what you're doing, your parents see that what you were doing wasn't so bad after all, though they'd prefer to… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices. — Kangna Ranaut Copy Share Image
Obviously, there are advantages when your parents and you share the same profession. I can always go to them for advice but my struggle… — Shriya Pilgaonkar Copy Share Image
You obviously appreciate your parents, but you really don't have a deep appreciation for them until you kind of go through it and see… — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
My parents have always said, 'You'll be so unhappy if you're no more than your career, that it's important to get out there and… — Eva Amurri Copy Share Image
My parents are amazing, but when I was like, 'Well, I'm going to be an actress,' and they're all doctors, that wasn't the best… — Reshma Shetty Copy Share Image
I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me. — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up. — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very,… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
TV requires a lot more patience. No one's ever like, 'I gotta get up at 5 A.M. and write my stand-up!' It's an easy… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
I want to be so famous that I'm the pop-culture reference that people would make to try and be racist to me. So I'd… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone. — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
Because of the Internet, you're sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It's a great challenge of our… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules. If you're… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
A lot of times, it seems like social media has devolved into people just yelling at each other and not really conversing. — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists. — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!'… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
Studio execs were like, ''Lord of the Rings!' People want to see sword-and-dragon-type things!' No, people just want to see great stories. Hollywood always… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
“Don’t allow anyone to pressure you into taking a job in a field that doesn’t feel right in your gut. You are the one… — Alison James Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
There are so many things you can do with your life, you can go to school and study toward your career, you can become… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
If I can beat a proven champion like Canelo, that will take my career to a different level. — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image