“I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.” TogetherActorsVoiceCareersStageCapacityStatements Author:Justin Timberlake
“I've had a great career in sports broadcasting - but I'm interested in lots of things. I like to write, I like to produce video projects, and I love to appear on stage.” WritingSportsCareersStageProduceProjectsVideoBroadcasting Author:Ralph Strangis
“I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by working hard and loving what you do. If you do that and have faith, maybe you will get lucky. I mean that sincerely and specifically. I truly believe that no professional career in the arts is capable without a healthy dose of luck.” IfsThinkingWayBelieveMeanArtHardCareersHealthyLuckyApproachCapableArt IsLuckHave FaithSincerelyDoseProfessional CareerLoving What You Do Author:Bryan Cranston
“I've not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I'm a very physical guy.” MadeGuySportsCareers Author:Aaron Eckhart
“In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.” NeedsPlayGuyCareersRolesAudienceLike YouHeroWindowInherentBad GuysProtagonists Author:Ryan Phillippe
“I only want to make movies I want to see. That may mean my career is somewhat limited, but that is my version of integrity. No matter how it performs or how it's received, I can be okay with it.” WantMayMeanI CanMatterCareersIntegrityOkayVersions Author:Ryan Phillippe
“Other than a few years of piano as a kid, I don't have all that much musical training. I played piano for all the musicals in high school and was in a few bands, but never really considered music as a viable career until I was in college.” YearsKidsSchoolCareersCollegeBandTrainingHigh SchoolMusicalPiano Author:John Keltonic
“Be persistent. Establishing yourself in this field could easily take years. Rarely will any composer get that one "big break." More often, success is built on hundreds - or thousands - of very small breaks. When I decided that I was definitely going to pursue a career as a film composer, I decided I was going to beat my head against that particular wall until something broke.” YearsBigsFilmCareersBreakFieldsParticularWallBeatsBuiltDecidedPursueBrokeComposerPersistentFilm Composers Author:John Keltonic
“I didn't really give a sh** what's going on in the rest of the world. I just didn't. I just wanted to focus on me, me, me, my career, my life, just me - blinders.” WorldGivingWantedCareersFocusBlindersFocus On Me Author:Madonna Ciccone
“If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.” IfsMindRememberLinesCareersWeekTvsSeriesWesternMuteTv Series Author:Robert Duvall
“I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.” YearsStillsFeltCareersFourRocksMissingCollegeBandEuropeMovedShipsFour YearsIrelandRock BandsIndie Rock Author:Bill Watterson
“for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesCharacterFunBitsCareersLittle BitProducersExpectingIrreverentIrreverence Author:Dean Winters
“I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!” PeopleGivingMindFallLeftPayHalfCareersGraceBuiltRootsLet MeGive MeTownsTablesEnvyRestaurantsLos AngelesSpectacularUnemployedBack AgainFalls From Grace Author:Mickey Rourke
“One thing that's great about having kids, especially given my career, is that it forces you out of your narcissism. I mean, I'm in a career where my product is me. So it was nice to have something, someone, come along and take the focus off me. I really needed to give myself some distractions from myself.” GivingMeanKidsGivenForceCareersFocusNiceOne ThingProductsNeededDistractionNarcissismHaving Kids Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.” NeedsCareMotherFatherCareersTakenBabyMotherhoodMemorable Author:Amy Heckerling
“A career is a progression of ups and downs, how you deal with them and how you bounce back.” DealsCareersProgressionUps & DownsBounce Author:Lights
“The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.” PeopleIfsWantFormCareersPerformancesEntertainmentPinnacleLive Performance Author:Bette Midler
“I sometimes look at the careers of other... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the 4 or 5 guys who go to New York City and get a loft and work together and use each other as models and that sort of thing and wait for years and years to get married. Maybe I just wasn't that definite.” KnowsYearsLooksSometimesUseTogetherArtistGuyWaitingCitiesCareersNew YorkMarriedModelsWorking TogetherNew York CityDefinite Author:Mike Royer
“I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.” FeelsHeartLongCareersMy HeartFactoriesBikeRidersHighlightsLong CareersYamaha Author:Valentino Rossi
“I can make films. And some of them come out good, and some of them come out better, and some of them come out worse. But I've been very lucky over the years to be able to sustain the length of career that I've had.” YearsI CanAbleFilmCareersLuckyLength Author:Woody Allen
“I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.” HumansRealCharacterEnjoyHuman BeingsCareersMajorityTrue LifeLarger Than LifeReal Human Author:Michael Jai White
“A man has always been seen as someone who works hard and has a full-time occupation. I think women should have the same opportunity and not have any stigma attached to them if they choose to pursue their careers.” IfsThinkingMenShouldHardOpportunityCareersHard WorkShould HavePursueOccupationStigma Author:Meryl Streep
“I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar.” IfsThinkingCharacterAbleCoursesCareersRichWonderfulOscars Author:Angela Bassett
“Seeing the same coverages, the same personnel, and for us to change the whole scenery, and bring somebody else in that’s necessarily competitive, a professional competitiveness, where guys are respecting each other’s careers, but yet are getting better. For us to come out here and a get a win, I think it helped us with those practices.” ThinkingWholeGuyWinningCareersPracticePlayerSeeingGet BetterCoverageSceneryCompetitivenessPersonnel Author:Cam Newton
“Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims against the tide, the outsider, the loner, all of that guy. He was my private self, and I had this other side that wanted to be liked in order to do all those things I dreamed of as a little boy. I didn't realize that those things didn't go together until later. And I'm quite sure that my use of acid and peyote helped me accept what was really going on inside of me instead of what I had imposed on myself.” LittlesPersonsRealSelfUseWantedTogetherGuyOrderSidesRealizingAcceptingBoysCareersSwimDividedTidesOutsidersAcidAnarchistThat GuyLittle BoysLonerReal SelfPeyote Author:George Carlin
“Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.” CareersObjectsObsessionRuinsRuinedHorrificHitchcock Author:Tippi Hedren
“The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.” BigsWantedCareersDirectorsHollywoodTurning PointsCheques Author:Steven Spielberg
“I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it's all one category because I've got to balance my family.” ThinkingEnoughFeelingsMy OwnCareersBalanceMy FriendsMy FamilyMy TimeCategoriesPersonal LifeEnough Time Author:Steven Spielberg
“I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters together. Rick Carter has done more than 15 of my directed films as a production designer.” PeopleFeelsMadeDoneTogetherFilmCareersCuttingMy FamilyProductionsListsDesignerEncountersCarterCinematographersSchindlerSchindler's ListClose Encounters Author:Steven Spielberg
“I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.” YearsLooksKindCareersStonesModelingStepping StonesHitchcock Author:Tippi Hedren
“I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.” WantWellsRealityActorsParentCareersFantasyGrowing UpGrowingFansSittingScream Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element of surprise. I've always felt really inspired by it. I love the spontaneity of the job. I think you can't really fight against it.” IfsThinkingJobsFightingFeltCareersCreativeElementsSurpriseInspiredRealmsSpontaneityElement Of Surprise Author:Emily Blunt
“I don't think I've ever tried to be something that I'm not. People do that for you. People try to pigeonhole you. People tried typecasting me, before they even saw me in anything else. I've never understood that. I was like, "Why don't you wait until my next project, before you start telling my what my career is going to look like, for the next 10 years?" I've never let it set me back because I always knew the world would try to do that for me, anyway.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingYearsLooksNextWaitingCareersSawsProjectsUnderstoodTypecasting Author:Chris Colfer
“I went through a change in my life and my career where I finally understood how to train and prepare. I finally understood what it meant, and I've had so many fantasies about being able to go back and be 16 again. And redo parts of my high school career. Redo all of my college career. Redo my attempt to make an Olympic team.” AbleSchoolCareersFantasyTeamCollegeUnderstoodHigh SchoolTrainChanging My LifeRedos Author:Chael Sonnen
“The careers that I admire and actually try to emulate are those of Julianne Moore and Annette Bening. Those women, to me, make amazing choices. They're sexy, beautiful women, but that doesn't dictate their choices.” TryingBeautifulChoicesCareersSexyAdmireBeautiful WomenEmulate Author:Eva Mendes
“I can't count the number of people I've talked to over the course of my career who have said to me that the thing that they most regret is the one time they did something just for the money.” PeopleSaidI CanCoursesNumbersCareersRegretOne Time Author:Tavis Smiley
“My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.” PastMotherFatherCareersLaughingBrotherToolsAssSense Of HumorBullyMother And FatherSeparatingCerebralOlder BrotherProfessional CareerCerebral Palsy Author:Tracy Morgan
“I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had. Even when I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing.” PeopleMenYoungParentCareersTeacherMen And WomenBlessedWingsLawyerFirm Author:Michelle Obama
“Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song to. And I'm not saying I'm better than anyone, but I think they turned that anti-authority baby boom mentality into their own enemy. Now I identify very closely with their children.” ThinkingChildrenSongDealsEnemyCareersBabyAuthorityMentalityBoomersBaby BoomerBaby Boom Author:George Carlin
“Not just as an actress, but on a human-being level, I've experienced frustration on many different levels. [With my] career, it would be more the frustration of not always finding challenging material or inspiring material ... [Acting is] therapeutic for me. I'm pretty accommodating.” HumansDifferentWould BeChallengesHuman BeingsLevelsActingCareersMaterialsFindingsActressesFrustrationTherapeuticDifferent Levels Author:Vera Farmiga
“I don't really want to start my career again, and I don't like Hollywood. If it had happened to me when I was young, yes, I'd be there like a shot, but I wouldn't like to go there and hang out and go to auditions at my age.” IfsWantAgeYoungCareersHappenedShotsHollywoodHanging OutAuditions Author:Roger Lloyd-Pack
“Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.” WellsRealDoneDecisionCareersInstinctInvestmentEstatesVentureDistinguishedLegislatureGreat Business Author:Christie Hefner
“I always wanted and enjoyed sex, but I never put much importance on scoring or having an athletic sex life. I guess I define myself more by my career and my commitment to a relationship than by my ability to have a lot of chicks or achieve ten orgasms in an evening.” WantedSexAbilityCareersAchieveTenCommitmentImportanceEveningEnjoyedAthleticChicks Author:George Carlin
“Making music is a wonderful way to spend your life, but do it for the love before a career. Enjoy it.” WayEnjoyLove IsCareersWonderfulMusic Is Author:Nigel Godrich
“I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.” IfsMy OwnClassCareersTeachExerciseGainsWeightStudiosCompulsion Author:Richard Simmons
“Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy.” PhilosophyAgeYoungCoursesParentCareersShareFortunateEncountersHappy LifeYoung Age Author:Keke Palmer
“I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a chance to make something of it, I'd see someone else do it. I just liked to watch my fellow artists become entrepreneurs and be people who can inspire the next generation. I did that more with my songs.” PeopleIdeasArtistSongNextChanceCareersWatchesGenerationsInspireFellowsEntrepreneurVentureNext Generation Author:Nas
“Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.” PeopleFeelsDifferentFacesTurnsBlackCareersLuckyThank You God Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“Most of my career is spent in a meeting... dressed sharply, looking really great; negotiating over a table, strategizing or coming up with new marketing plans or new ideas. And that makes me really, really happy.” IdeasCareersPlansTablesMeetingsMarketingNew IdeasReally GreatReally HappyNegotiatingMarketing Plans Author:Tyra Banks
“It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - there's very few people I haven't run into.” PeopleRunningCoursesCitiesCareersComedyFourHavensNew YorkLos AngelesBostonSan Francisco Author:Marc Maron