Careers Quotes

Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

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I think we do need better training programs, we do need a way to get people from careers that are dead-end into new careers.

When you have passionate fans, they feel like they're a part of your career.

I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.

What I'm looking for in my career, you know? You're looking for those lightning bolts of inspiration where someone says something that sparks an idea or suggests something strange.

That's kind of how I've based my career. I find talented people and beg me to let me work with them.

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

I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.

In my entire career, I've never cried, consistently, through a movie, ever.

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you’re waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

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

I really do consider myself quite fledgling in my acting career. I've only been doing it for 10 years and that's a short amount of time, really.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

I never thought about that ever throughout the entire course of my career about choosing a specific role because it would make me seem more man-like.

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

It's difficult to plan this kind of career. You just need to wait and be picky and try not to commit to just one thing. I'll have to see what's next, see what happens, and see what the future brings.

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

[Sundance is] giving people a chance - many first-time filmmakers. It carries that weight - if you bring something here, people connect with it and it can launch a career.

My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.

I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.

My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.

The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself.

I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal - because I'm not hiding anything from them.

A lot of girls that work really hard and have had long careers, and stay grounded. I love Carolyn Murphy, she is gorgeous. All the VS Angels! They work super hard and have the sweetest personalities.

What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

The importance of balance is huge but I think it is for everybody. It's a big issue for at least anyone that I talk to in any career.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl among boys.

I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.

It's funny because the voice-over world is definitely another career. It's another outlet to be creative. But, I'm just not invested, in the way that I am with film and television.

Reese Witherspoon is my everywoman. She's managed to have a family and this amazing career. That's the goal.

Consistency is one of the hallmarks of my career. You knew what you were going to get out of E-Smith every game, every year, no matter if I was 22, 21 or 35 years old.

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

I think that whatever you do, if you're a singer, a rapper, an architect, dentist, treat that like when you're doing it, your whole career depends on that moment.

Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.

When I realized, "Hm, I'm not that good at all. It will take me weeks, maybe months, to master the 32 yolks." When I did, it was a turning point in my career.

Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.

Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.

If I were single and had my career, I'd be happy. You have to be happy with what you're doing.