“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.” PeopleIfsThinkingEndsMatterFeelingsCareersAgingDancerBalletAmbitiousTruthfulWrestlerBallet Dancer Author:Darren Aronofsky
“Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."” IfsThinkingSaidCareersSticksThanks Book:Conversations with Ian McEwan Source: Conversations with Ian McEwan
“I find many women are intimidated by "career women"! Bottom line: snap judgments about what you think others' perceptions might be about you, personally or professionally, can be more dangerous or damaging to you than those who are uncomfortable with your stature or your smarts. If you are smart and focused on your career, remind yourself that no one can ever take away your drive and your passion.” IfsThinkingMightPassionLinesCareersDangerousJudgmentPerceptionSmartBottomFocusedUncomfortableBottom LineSnapsIntimidatedStatureCareer WomenSnap Judgment Author:Jenna Lee
“I don't know if I'm all that famous. When I first started my idea of what a career in fashion would look like is very different to the reality now.” IfsKnowsFirstsLooksIdeasDifferentRealityCareersFashion Author:Karen Walker
“If you want to make something happen in your life or career, well then you make and find the time. Simple as that.” IfsWantWellsHappensSimpleCareersThings Happen Author:Ashley Purdy
“I've basically been able to do everything, I basically run my own career and the decisions I make - whether it's how I'm gonna roll out music, how I'm gonna play on tours, different strategies for releasing and marketing things - and that comes from being college educated and someone who's interested in that side of the business rather than only the music. If anything I think that's where the biggest direct influence comes from.” IfsThinkingDifferentPlayRunningAbleSidesMy OwnDecisionCareersInfluenceCollegeDirectStrategyMarketingEducated Author:Hoodie Allen
“Early in my career it was very important that I gain the reputation. I haven't been on the road in two or three years, but when I say tickets are on sale, I know they're going to be gone, even if my movie bombed or my TV show sucked.” IfsKnowsYearsTwoImportantShowsThreeCareersGoneHavensTvsGainsReputationThree YearsTicketsTv Shows Author:Chris Rock
“If I were single and had my career, I'd be happy. You have to be happy with what you're doing.” IfsCareers Author:Eva Longoria
“A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.” IfsTryingSometimesActorsSpaceWonderCareersCrazyMinesIndustryEntertainmentUps & DownsEntertainment IndustryWasting Your Time Author:Chris Carmack
“I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part of a career. If you start out playing instruments you create a better instinct and feeling for music.” IfsThinkingImportantPlayFeelingsUsedCareersInstrumentsInstinctGuitarMusicalIncludingBackgroundsSnaresPlaying Instruments Author:Nicky Romero
“I figure I just keep working and let the chips fall where they may, and if that means I end up having an eclectic career, so be it. For me to try to manipulate things or for me to try to tell people or the system how it should be...I'm just a kind of a more go-with-the-flow guy when it comes to my acting career.” PeopleIfsShouldTryingKindMayMeanEndsGuyFallActingCareersFiguresFlowChipsManipulateEclectic Author:Clint Howard
“When I landed in L.A. in early '89, William Morris decided to take me on to see if I could get any jobs. I was cast in a TV movie called Protected Surf, and made $30,000 in four weeks, and I decided I needed to take acting seriously, because I had never made that much money in a year, much less four weeks. That's when I decided I thought I could make a career out of it.” IfsYearsMadeJobsActingCareersFourWeekTvsNeededDecidedCastsIf I CouldTake MeProtectedSurfMorris Author:Thomas Haden Church
“As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.” IfsShowsHandsActorsOpportunityRealizingCareersRolesSpecialTvsLuckyPagesScriptsMemorableCategoriesTv ShowsLucky You Author:Holt McCallany
“I don't know if it was a defining moment. I knew it as soon as I could comprehend the possibility of having a career. I knew very young I wanted to be a movie star. As much as I grew into love of the craft. As soon as I could speak I was auditioning and going to classes every day. It was my life.” IfsKnowsMomentsWantedYoungSpeakStarsClassCareersPossibilityGrewCraftsMovie StarDefiningDefining Moments Author:Columbus Short
“I think if you've won one, quit while you're ahead. I loved doing it, though. If you get an opportunity that great, grab it, as it won't come along again. Until I read in the papers I did it to 'rescue my career'.” IfsThinkingOpportunityCareersPaperQuittingRescuePapers Author:Tony Blackburn
“The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that - if it is only arranging a window blind!” IfsChristianCareersStudyOughtWindowBlindChristian InspirationalHardestSatanMissionaryBible StudyArrangingPrayerful Author:Hudson Taylor
“As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.” IfsThinkingLooksDoneKidsTogetherJobsOpportunityMemoriesChanceFamilyCareersMissingMy FamilyCoachesCoaching Author:John Madden
“If your opponent has an exposed king it is frequently worth sacrificing a pawn to be able to bring your rooks into the game, especially if your opponent's rooks are languishing in the corner. Kasparov has made a career out of such sacrifices.” IfsMadeAbleGamesCareersSacrificeKingsCornersChessOpponentsExposedPawns Author:Neil McDonald
“If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done.” IfsThinkingWayWritingSaidDoneWould BeCareCareersAdviceEasierPercentPublishingEasier Said Than Done Author:Andre Dubus
“[Learn] to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life. We call them coincidences, but if we look closely we see they are meaningful. They bring us just the right information at just the right time to extend our careers, relationships, and growth. These events feel destined in some way, as though the world is set up to help us make a better life, work through our problems, and reach our dreams - if we just pay attention.” IfsWorldWayFeelsLooksHelpingProblemDreamHappensOpportunityGrowthPayAttentionCareersEventsInformationDown AndMeaningfulMysteriousPay AttentionPerceiveCoincidenceRight TimeDestinedOur DreamsSlow DownBetter Life Author:James Redfield
“All of the advice that I give, I'm not an expert by any means, but it's just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling.” IfsThinkingGivingShouldMeanFeelingsOpinionCareersAdviceStyleShould HaveLikesExperts Author:Molly Ringwald
“What I love about the gay thing is that every single person I type into Google, it doesn't matter if it's Florence Welch, anybody, if you are not being called gay you don't have a career. That's my theory!” IfsPersonsMatterCareersTheoryTypeGayGoogleSingle PersonFlorence Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I'm almost 40, so it's an awkward time in my career. You kind of hope it comes through and, if not, I'll be a waiter. Awesome.” IfsKindCareersAwkwardWaiter Author:Matthew Lillard
“And when you're with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling, again, collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that's why I really like the pace of television.” IfsProcessCareersTelevisionAspectBoredCollaborationPaceCrewThrilling Author:Glenn Close
“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
“Someone once told me it's more important what you turn down than what you take, and I think that rings true, especially when you're trying to make decisions about how you want to be viewed. It's hard, because I also want to have fun, and if there's a project that's super-small or low-budget or silly but it happens to have friends involved, I'll always take it, because my number-one priority is that I want to have fun with my career.” IfsThinkingWantTryingImportantHardHappensTurnsFunDecisionNumbersCareersInvolvedProjectsLowsPrioritiesRingsSillyHaving FunBudgets Author:Kristen Bell
“If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsBelieveCausesLosesCareersPosition Author:Danger Mouse
“If you look at the careers of Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Paul Giamatti, Meryl Streep, none of them shot up in terms of fame or fortune or recognition, they laid a platform of good, solid work and became better and better.” IfsLooksTermCareersFameShotsFortuneRecognitionPlatformsPhilip Author:Max Irons
“I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents.” IfsKnowsArtIdeasShowsParentCareersBabyShow BusinessBoomersBaby Boomer Author:Jason Sudeikis
“If there's a criteria that really gets me interested in a work besides any type of personal interaction with the theme, it's if I feel like this is the right piece of work for that director at that moment in their career.” IfsFeelsMomentsCareersPiecesTypeDirectorsThemeThat MomentInteractionCriteria Author:Edward Norton
“If I waited until I felt creative, I would never have had a career. I long ago learned that a day that starts out badly, when nothing comes out on the page or comes out wrong, can suddenly turn into a good day a few hours later, when suddenly everything starts to click. The brain can be cajoled into being creative.” IfsLongTurnsFeltHoursBrainCareersCreativePagesLong AgoBe CreativeGood DayClicks Author:Dean Koontz
“If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.” IfsThinkingWould BeWinningChanceRaceCareersTitlesContinuingCompetingWinning The Race Author:Michael Schumacher
“I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if I had not pursued journalism, I think storm-chasing would've been a really fun career.” IfsThinkingFunCareersStormWeatherJournalismChasingPursuedStormyStormy Weather Author:Chuck Klosterman
“I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.” PeopleIfsCareCareersAssLazySpurs Author:Fiona Apple
“If De Niro wants to spend the twilight of his career as the McDonald's of master thespians, we can't stop him.” IfsWantCareersMastersTwilightMcdonaldsDe NiroThespians Author:Robert De Niro
“After 'Bhaji On The Beach', I didn't make a movie for six years. I couldn't get a movie off the ground for love nor money. It was a very tough time and I almost gave up. If I had been an Oxbridge bloke after 'Bhaji', my career would have been very different” IfsYearsHas BeensDifferentCareersSixToughBeachTough TimesGave UpBlokes Author:Gurinder Chadha
“I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your career to take off. Keep writing. Be you. Be original. A lot of people go for a genre, which is fine if you can do that really well, but we all have such layered histories. We all come from a unique background. Write about your past, write about you. Or make stuff up, but make it about something that really matters.” PeopleIfsWritingWellsMadeTwoMatterPastStuffCan DoCareersFineTerribleUniqueOriginalsScriptsBackgroundsGenreBe YouOur PastYour Past Author:Nicole Holofcener
“If you're on to something but you start repeating it, that's the end of your career.” IfsEndsCareers Author:Ron Rothfield
“If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.” IfsTryingMovingArtistChoicesCareersFitHappeningsCareers Choices Author:Nikka Costa
“If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly showing career women who are also successful mothers and also look gorgeous. And we fall into believing that these fictional lives are somehow accurate depictions of what our real lives should be about.” IfsShouldBelieveLooksRealShowsMotherFallCoursesCareersSuccessfulTelevisionReal LifeBeing RealAccurateGorgeousTelevision ShowsDepictionCareer Women Author:Debora Spar
“If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?” IfsMeanAttentionCareersSucceedWorthyBlank Author:Cris Mazza
“I think a lot of people try to plan things in their career. They feel like, If I don't get this done by the time I'm thirty, everything's over. But I've worked with a lot of people whose careers shot to the top later in life.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsTryingDoneCareersPlansShotsThirtyLater In Life Author:Alison Pill