“Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.” ActorsDifficultCareersSuccessfulNew YorkTelevisionMovedActressesScreensCardsMiamiObtainingGuildsSuccessful CareerTelevision Commercials Author:Donna Rice Hughes
“I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.” YearsMomentsFeltDifficultCareersComfortableSevenGrassSeven YearsDifficult TimesDifficult Moments Author:Marat Safin
“I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it!” WholeDreamActorsWinningDifficultGoalCareersUltimateOscars Author:Taylor Lautner
“Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life.” DifficultCareersHugePortions Author:Curtis Jackson
“I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.” YearsKindHas BeensFoundSpeakDifficultCareersSixSevenCracksNutsComing BackSeven YearsRetiredNew CarNew Career Author:Julie London
“When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.” HardRunningUsedDifficultCareersComfortableShoesBarefoot Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever.” WantStillsRealDifficultCareersAmbitionSingingSingersUnusualModestUnusual Things Author:Lana Del Rey
“They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.” Has BeensSeemsDifficultCareersReadyProfession Author:Diana Rigg
“To make magic credible on screen is always very difficult. The story is the most important thing. That is what should win. If sacrifices or compromises are made, it's usually for story. Story in magic is very, very important to me. That's what I've really championed through my career.” IfsShouldMadeImportantStoriesWinningDifficultCareersMagicSacrificeImportant ThingsScreensCompromiseMade ItCredible Author:David Copperfield
“I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.” FeelsHeartFoundDifficultStepsCareersSawsNeededGet BetterFlatsPanicTherapistsMaking PeaceHeart AttackPhoto ShootsPanic AttacksMusic Career Author:Ellie Goulding
“There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.” MenHas BeensDifficultCareersDoubtCenturyValuableNo DoubtSexismWrestlingMinors Author:Alice Hegan Rice
“Careers are built on relationships. Even if it's a bad movie, even if I know it's a bad movie, even if it's a team of filmmakers that I know are going to be difficult, that I know are going to really make me work extra hard, it's fundamentally the same process.” IfsKnowsHardProcessDifficultCareersTeamBuiltFilmmakerExtrasBad Movies Author:Christophe Beck
“Playing those one-dimensional characters is actually really difficult because you're not dealing with somebody you would ever really know. I don't think anybody here could imagine actually knowing Cindy Campbell from 'Scary Movies.' So, in a way, your job is so much easier when you're playing a person that you really understand and that seems very relatable. I think I was coming to a place in my career where I was like, "I'd like to do something a little more rewarding."” ThinkingKnowsWayLittlesPersonsCharacterSeemsJobsDifficultCareersKnowingImagineEasierScaryRelatableCindy Author:Anna Faris
“What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.” GivingI CanTwoLastsDifficultMy OwnDecisionCareersClearWeekMinutesAdviceCoupleTunesTake MeTake TimeTwo WeeksIt Takes TimeLast MinuteYes Or No Author:Paul Walker
“What I find really difficult is making career decisions.” DifficultDecisionCareers Author:Paul Walker
“I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.” PeopleKnowsWayWantLooksReadingDifficultLinesActingCareersCreativeWrittenDoorsTerribleScriptsFakeAgencyConfusedAmbitiousBe CreativeBreaking DownSmall PartsMemorizingHeadshots Author:Amy Sedaris
“The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).” IfsWayNeedsWould BeIndividualDifficultResultsCareersTeamAchieveBuildingDevelopmentEgoDirectRecognitionEtcAgendasDivisionHierarchyTeam BuildingAlignmentCareer DevelopmentOrganizationalConfidentiality Author:Patrick Lencioni
“For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.” WayWellsPlayWantedJobsDifficultActingAcceptingCareersHabitDirectorsTheaterMy WayAspirationDefault Author:James Cromwell
“It's very difficult to juggle two careers, unless you're going to have someone put it all together for you. Because you're on TV, somebody just gives you a record deal - that's not how I'd want to get it, because it's just not real.” WantGivingTwoRealTogetherDifficultDealsCareersRecordsTvs Author:Ed Westwick
“And lastly, when other things in life get tough, when you're going through family troubles, when you're heartbroken, when you're frustrated with money problems, focus on your work. It has saved me through every single difficult thing I have ever had to do, like a scaffolding that goes far beyond any traditional notions of a career.” ProblemDifficultCareersFocusTroubleToughNotionSavedTraditionalWorking ItThings In LifeFrustratedHeartbrokenDifficult ThingsScaffoldingMoney Problem Author:Teresita Fernandez
“It's difficult to get an audience to want to keep up with you, stay present tense. But there's never been a big lag in my career between product. I've constantly tried to pull my audience up into what I'm doing present tense, and they've been usually happy to go there with me.” WantBigsDifficultCareersAudienceProductsTenseLagPresent Tense Author:Kenny Loggins