“I love that my career has been documented and I can look back one day and share it with my kids.” LooksHas BeensI CanKidsCareersShareOne Day Author:Aubrey O'Day
“I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.” MadeKidsCareersBabyJokesAgentsPregnantHaving A BabyNobody CaresWere Pregnant Author:Busy Philipps
“I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.” GivingTryingKidsCareersDeserveGreat Work Author:Tom Sizemore
“I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.” DoneKidsFilmYoungFatherGivenBlackCareersWatchesHavensSonTypeConceptsPartnershipSuperheroFather SonFather And Son Author:Blair Underwood
“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.” IfsWorldHardWould BeKidsWantedSchoolJobsAmericaFeltParentChanceClassCareersGrowing UpGrowingMiddleMiddle ClassGood School Author:Al Franken
“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.” NeedsShouldFirstsKindMeanDoeTwoHardReasonHomeKidsMotherHouseDecisionDealsNumbersCareersPracticeInvolvedThirdsPursueUncertaintyBuyingStakesSpouseNursingGroceriesNursing Home Author:Steven Levitt
“One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I said, whatever kind of career I had, it has served me well, but you do owe some people. And the people you owe are the folks who are going to come behind you. It's incumbent upon each watch — when you play your 10, 11 years and you're in your group — when you leave, I truly hope that you've done all you can possibly do to leave it a better place for the folks who come behind you.” PeopleMenYearsWellsKindSaidDonePlayKidsBehindsCareersWatchesGroupsFolksBetter PlaceBehind YouAbsolutely NothingIncumbents Author:Earl Lloyd
“Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.” IfsEndsFactsWould BeKidsJobsFallActingCareersAdviceHollywoodDryFall BackFickleDry Up Author:Matthew Lawrence
“Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.” DoneDreamKidsAbleGuySportsCareersToo MuchOne ThingChildhoodDadHandleThrillDreams Come TrueBoyhoodHull Author:Bobby Hull
“I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.” NeedsArtKidsArtistFunMy OwnCareersProfessionClockBossAlarmsAlarm Clocks Author:Mark Kostabi
“It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.” IfsThinkingWorldStoriesBigsSeemsRunningKidsChoicesThreeCoursesLeftDealsEffortCareersTechnologyModernDogComputerAccessPensMailBedroomThree TimesBig DealArrivalsCorrespondencePalsModern TechnologyCareers Choices Author:Charles de Lint
“My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.” IfsMeanKidsCareersWifeMy FamilyArtificial Author:Mel Gibson
“You know what happens to guys? There's what I call the individual time of their career, and the team time of their career. This is the team time. You don't care about all the other stuff. You just want to live in one place, and watch your kids grow up and go to the same school. You say, 'Hey, maybe I'd better play well and be a good enough guy that they keep me.'” KnowsWantWellsEnoughPlayHappensCareKidsSchoolGuyIndividualGrowsStuffCareersWatchesGrowing UpTeamDon't CareHeyGood EnoughNhl Author:Mike Babcock
“Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsYearsLooksChildrenHelpingSeemsCareKidsPayCareersTakenLuckySickFoundationGet BetterHospitalsHelping PeopleJackiePaybackSick Kids Author:Jackie Chan
“I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.” HeartWholeKidsCareersTroubleCrazyMy HeartWhole Life Author:Sarah Carter
“I like to think there are a lot of balls in the air, and the kids are not one that I choose to drop. They have been a priority and I have a career that allows for a little more flexibility at times and hours that are quite mom-friendly.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensKidsHoursCareersAirMomBallsPrioritiesFriendlyFlexibility Author:Elisabeth Hasselbeck
“When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.” KidsSchoolEasyActingCareersCryGradesTranslate Author:Albert Brooks
“My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.” IfsFirstsCharacterKidsJobsFacesMotherVoiceCareersToo MuchBoxesActressesVideoCartoonCartoon Character Author:Joan Cusack
“The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on The Big C has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so shes warned me what to expect.” Has BeensHelpingBigsKidsActorsCareersHundredMajorityZero Author:Gabriel Basso
“I think some people will die on the stage, and I'm not so sure I want to do that. Like, I want to have kids! I'm totally fine with saying that. I think some people are scared because they're worried it's going to ruin their career, but I want to live a full life.” PeopleThinkingWantKidsDiesCareersStageFineScaredRuinsWorriedFull Life Author:Katy Perry
“In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.” WantKidsCareersHappy Marriage Author:Vendela Kirsebom
“As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.” ThinkingYearsMeanSometimesKidsForgetCareersBandLike MeIconicShatteringMetallica Author:Corey Taylor
“Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.” FirstsKindKidsJobsActorsVoiceCareersAdultsCreditAnimationTouchstonesMel Blanc Author:Tom Kenny
“I'm not trying to turn into Eddie Murphy, and just do kids movies the rest of my career. I'm going to still do a wide variety of movies, as well as do hardcore rap.” TryingWellsStillsKidsTurnsCareersRapWideVarietyHardcoreMurphyKids Movie Author:Ice Cube
“I talked a lot early on in my career about intersectionality and how racism and classism and sexism and homophobia and capitalism are all connected with each other, and they're these crazy systems that are feeding on each other and are also damaging. I can't even go into the whole spectrum of it. But I feel like kids today are so much more savvy about that conversation. And I'm so thrilled when I get to meet younger people who are doing that so much better than I did.” PeopleFeelsI CanWholeKidsTodayCareersCrazyConversationRacismCapitalismConnectedSexismFeedingSpectrumHomophobiaSavvyIntersectionalityClassism Author:Kathleen Hanna
“My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I think it's an amazing sport. I am happy to be an ambassador for the next Olympics and I will do my best to honour the Olympics spirit and to hopefully encourage kids to participate in sports, especially in Asia and Korea and I am looking forward to an amazing Olympics.” ThinkingWorldHas BeensKidsAmericaSpiritNextSportsGoalCareersHopefullyHonourRacingOlympicsAsiaLooking ForwardKoreaAmbassadorsSkisSki Racing Author:Lindsey Vonn
“If a kid is really interested in wanting to have a career in aviation, he's actually learning and getting some of the [basics], not even just fringe. There are things in here that movie [Planes] about like the pulp of an engine, and it's the actual engine, the actual parts and pieces. So I felt like I got schooled as well. I learned a lot just being in there and doing that.” IfsWellsKidsFeltCareersPiecesPlanesAviationEnginesJust BeingFringeBasicsSchooledPulp Author:Dane Cook
“I've got a lot of other people who do a lot of things for me, so I've gotten to a part in my career where I'm doing a lot of talks because I want to get kids turned on. I want to see these kids, these geeky nerdy kids, go out there and do something.” PeopleWantKidsCareersNerdy Author:Temple Grandin
“Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal opportunity for success that made America exceptional, we're watching career politicians throw away our kids' future through bankrupting public budgets and ripping open our porous borders which, obvious to all us non-politicians, puts us at great risk.” GivingMadeKidsAmericaSuccessOpportunityVoiceCareersMillionsEconomyRiskTrumpPoliticianEqualDestructionObviousBudgetsBordersCandidatesFedsExceptionalFed UpEqual OpportunityGreat RiskOpportunity For SuccessCareer PoliticiansGiving Voice Author:Sarah Palin
“The next stage of Sebastian Vettel Formula One career will be spent with Scuderia Ferrari and for Sebastian Vettel Scuderia Ferrari means the dream of a lifetime has come true, When I was a kid, Michael Schumacher in the red car was my greatest idol and now it 's an incredible honor to finally get the chance to drive a Ferrari.” MeanDreamKidsNextChanceCareersStageCarHonorRedLifetimeIncrediblesFormulasIdolsFerrariFormula OneSchumacherVettel Author:Sebastian Vettel
“I miss going to school and having friends; that's normal for anyone my age. I had a very boring childhood because I never had the opportunity to associate with anybody my own age due to my career. I miss being around kids my own age.” KidsAgeSchoolOpportunityMy OwnCareersChildhoodMissingNormalBoringDuesAssociates Author:Selena
“I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business.” WholeStoriesKidsMotherReadingSoundCareersProjectsCustomersMonstersSellingDramaticNightmareWerewolf Author:George R. R. Martin
“A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.” WorldCountryKidsCareersStudentsCollegeReadyCouplePercentThirdsErrors Author:Jeb Bush
“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
“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
“I love it all. I don't want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films.” WantHandsKidsActionFilmBehindsCareersAudienceDramaIntenseTiedMidnightAdrenalineLove MakingAction FilmsBehind My BackHands Tied Author:Nicolas Cage
“I wake up every day and think about what I am to other people. What I am to the people I employ, who depend on me to wake up and do my job that day and keep this career going? I think about what I am to the kids who listen to my music and all the other people involved in this project.” PeopleThinkingKidsJobsCareersDependsInvolvedProjectsWake Up Author:Halsey
“I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed. While LEGOs are sold in kits in order to build specific things, there [are] very few people who leave their LEGOs in those kits. It very rapidly becomes an open system where you can build whatever you want. That's the one thing that signifies my entire life and my career. I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.” PeopleThinkingWantKidsAgeWantedOrderRealizingPowerfulCareersOne ThingKeysToysVery PowerfulLegos Author:Jamie Hyneman
“My priorities are really about creating balance in my home, making sure that I have enough time with my kids, making sure that I have the time to do the things that I want to do with my career, and to continue to make movies.” WantEnoughHomeKidsCareersBalanceCreatingPrioritiesEnough Time Author:Nia Long
“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
“I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.” PlayWholeKidsCareersStyleSingingWhole LifeItalianOpera Author:Brittany Murphy
“For me, having kids put so much into perspective. I wasn't so worried about my career and what I did or didn't achieve. Because, suddenly, I was like, "As long as this baby is healthy and safe, everything else is fine."” LongKidsCareersAchievePerspectiveBabyFineHealthySafeWorriedHaving Kids Author:Milla Jovovich
“As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up.” WayRealKidsFictionCareersFansGrewGrew UpScience FictionMonstersScience Fiction Movie Author:Kevin Grevioux
“Maybe "having enough" has a second meaning beyond the basic economic security a family needs. Maybe it means accepting that a rich full life with a job and family will be rewarding, but it certainly won't be perfect. As many of us who have combined kids and careers know all too well, some days it's really pretty messy. And that's OK.” KnowsNeedsWellsMeanEnoughKidsJobsPerfectAcceptingCareersRichEconomicSecurityMessyFull LifeEconomic SecurityReally Pretty Author:Willow Bay