“An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.” FeelsYearsLooksDifferentActorsCareersFiveProductsSixMirrorsSevenJust OneSeven Years Author:Ron Livingston
“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
“I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.” PerfectCareersFiveSixCrushGreat OnesWilder Author:Jason Reitman
“Don't let people scare you from a career that may not net you a six figure salary. If you want to be a teacher, teach. But knowing that your salary may only reach a certain level, do all that you can to become the best money manager you can be.” PeopleIfsWantMayCertainLevelsCareersTeachKnowingTeacherFiguresSixManagersScareSalaryBest Money Author:Michelle Singletary
“There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.” IfsJobsDifferencesCareersWorrySixClockBoss Author:Ricky Gervais
“For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.” FirstsTalkingCareersMonthsSixSix MonthsAlright Author:Jack Whitehall
“[On the start of her career as a milliner:] When I was six I made my mother a little hat -- out of her new blouse.” LittlesMadeMotherCareersSixHatsBlouses Author:Lilly Dache
“The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.” ThinkingYearsFirstsSelfCareersSixSingingConsciousWeightHarderCommentSelf Conscious Author:Kenny Rogers
“Harold Ramis really got my career going and was a friend for a long time. I was doing a play in L.A., and he came to see it a few times and recommended me to Ivan Reitman for Ghostbusters 2. Six months later, I quit real estate and was acting for good, and it was really because Harold took an interest in me and made a phone call and did stuff that people don't usually do, even if they like somebody.” PeopleIfsLongMadeRealPlayStuffInterestActingCareersMonthsSixLong TimePhonesQuittingEstatesSix MonthsPhone CallsI Quit Author:Kurt Fuller
“I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.” YearsLongWantedHoursCareersRegretPerspectiveSixProjectsMajorsLong TimeTrainingEightChampionshipCompetingGet OverAthleticsNew ProjectsDoldrums Author:Daley Thompson
“I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.” ThinkingFirstsSometimesUseGivenCareersMonthsSixSpreadSix MonthsGoodwill Author:Ricky Gervais
“What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.” ArtistCompanyCareersRecordsBloodSixAlbumsHarmThese DaysDryLongevityDrainsRecord CompaniesSingles Author:Elton John
“I have six different careers, each one of which I was successful in. I was a successful person in life because I helped everybody, because I did not do anything wrong.” PersonsDifferentCareersSuccessfulSixSuccessful Person Author:Ferdie Pacheco
“It's never happened to me before, in my career, and never will again. It's a one-off experience. It's a rare treat to have a cast together for six years. Crews come and go, and a few of them have been there throughout, but not many. It's rare, in my experience, after 26 years, to have had a proper company in a show that enjoys each other's company, and who is such a fine bunch of people and actors. To have struck a chord with people, and to have had that combination, is extremely rare.” PeopleYearsHas BeensShowsTogetherActorsEnjoyCompanyCareersHappenedFineSixTreatsCastsBunchCombinationCrewChordsComes And Goes Author:Hugh Bonneville
“I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.” YearsDoneIndividualCareersAmountSixGoldPressureOlympicsMedalGold MedalsGet It DoneProfessional Career Author:Michael Johnson
“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