Best Careers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.”

“You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.”

“My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.”

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Author:Michael Madsen

“Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.”

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Author:Nancy McKeon

“The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.”

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Author:Paul Mazursky

“I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.”

Levels Careers Girlfriend Toms Cruise

Author:Jodie Foster

“People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.”

People I Can Hard Careers Risk Musician Slopes

Author:Vanessa Mae

“Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.”

Knows Careers Tvs Get Back

Author:Dean Norris

“I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.”

Careers Fortunate Collaborators

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“My philosophy has always been that I hope I have a good enough day to give me another one, I hope that I have a good enough year to give me another year. I know that's cliched, but it's the truth in how I approach my career.”

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Author:David Nail

“I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.”

Art Careers New York London Dramatic Academy

Author:David Naughton

“Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.”

Made Done Situation Careers Taken Records Team

Author:Don Nelson

“could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.”

Stars Interesting Careers Roles Lots Of Money

Author:Franco Nero

“There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.”

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Author:Gary Neville

“What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.”

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Author:Graham Nelson

“I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years.”

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Author:Jimmy Nail

“My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.”

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Author:LeRoy Neiman

“Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.”

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Author:Paul Nurse

“I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.”

Suffering Enjoy Careers

Author:Rafael Nadal

“I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.”

Thinking Ideas Careers Dangerous Planning

Author:Clive Owen

“You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.”

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Author:David Ortiz

“My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.”

Important Whole Careers Important Things Swings Showers

Author:David Ortiz

“My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.”

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Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.”

Thinking Art Wanted Careers

Author:Frank Ocean

“Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.”

Years Wells Shows Lasts Interesting Careers Records Havens Very Good Pops Consistently

Author:John Otway

“I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.”

Years Careers Periods Lows Aspect Years Ago

Author:John Otway

“Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.”

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Author:Karen O

“AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.”

Fighting Acting Careers Prove Proving Yourself

Author:Miranda Otto

“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.”

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Author:Miranda Otto

“APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons together.”

Looks Together Goal Vision Careers Share Evolution Unique Horizon Expanding

Author:Paul Oakenfold

“I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.”

Careers Driven

Author:Richard O'Brien

“The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.”

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Author:Sandra Oh

“Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.”

Careers Mom Dad Pressure

Author:Stacie Orrico

“In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.”

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Author:Tea Obreht

“I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.”

Knows Wanted School Careers

Author:Lilly Pulitzer

“My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.”

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Author:John Lennon

“Even if some days I feel like I'm ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I've ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me tremendously. All in all, I feel like am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing.”

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Author:Ali Landry

“So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.”

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Author:Anthony LaPaglia

“All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.”

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Author:Brandon Lee

“I gave up my childhood for a career.”

Careers Childhood Gave Up

Author:Brenda Lee

“If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.”

People Ifs Made I Can Careers Illusion Illusion Of Control

Author:Diane Lane

“For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?”

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Author:David Oyelowo

“I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.”

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Author:David Oyelowo

“Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career - how many tickets are sold.”

Names Careers Where You Are Tickets Testament

Author:Jake Owen

“Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.”

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Author:Jake Owen

“Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.”

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Author:Jake Owen

“At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.”

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Author:Adepero Oduye

“I love that my career has been documented and I can look back one day and share it with my kids.”

Looks Has Beens I Can Kids Careers Share One Day

Author:Aubrey O'Day

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