“Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.” PeopleMenFirstsHas BeensMadeDoneWholeFallWaitingCareersFirst TimeSickCourt Author:Allen Iverson
“Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.” FilmWaitingCareersCasts Author:Richard LaGravenese
“Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career is an accident waiting to happen.” PeopleHappensWaitingSidesCareersAccidents Author:Daniel J. King
“You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then, you suddenly don't have a career and you have to wait for the next bit to come along. It's the most strange profession in the world.” WorldEndsJobsNextActorsCausesBitsWaitingCareersStrangeProfessionBridgesThrown Author:David Oakes
“In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.” ArtSuccessActorsWaitingCareersCreativeSpecialBuddhismDisciplineDrawsTablesActressesCreative ArtWaiting Tables Author:Frederick Lenz
“The first five years of my career, I was Inmate #1, Bad Guy #1 and Mean Guy #1. I had a great career going, until somebody told me that I was typecast. I said, "Well, what's typecast?" And they said, "Well, you're always playing the mean Chicano dude with tattoos." I thought about that and I said, "Wait a minute! I am the mean Chicano dude with tattoos, so somebody is getting it right."” YearsFirstsWellsMeanSaidGuyWaitingCareersFiveMinutesFive YearsTattooThey SaidBad GuysInmatesMean Guy Author:Danny Trejo
“I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.” ChildrenHardWantedYoungWaitingCareersGenerationsMomAdvantageCarpe DiemCarpe Author:Brittany Murphy
“In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.” PeopleEnoughRealityFilmNextWaitingInterestingCareersCasesLonging Author:Rani Mukerji
“I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.” PeopleSeemsUsedArtistWaitingCareersRoundsCornersDecadesSuitsContemptUnusualDiamondConcealed Author:Nick Lowe
“When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.” YearsLongShowsWaitingLeadershipChanceAbilityLeaderCareersGoneSuccessfulWingsRetiringUnlikelySomewhere ElseSuccessorsCaliberLong CareersSuccessful Leaders Author:Thomas Sowell
“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 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 didn’t know that it was going to launch a quote-unquote comedic career. I just wanted to do anything other than wait tables.” KnowsWantedWaitingCareersTablesComedic Author:Charlie Day
“You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: "Wow, well wait a second!" Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.” PeopleWellsHappensFilmWaitingSituationCareersLuckyBest ThingsSensitiveWow Author:Eli Roth