“People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.” PeopleI CanHardCareersRiskMusicianSlopes Author:Vanessa Mae
“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.” PeopleSelfBeliefActingCareersStageExampleGoes OnAffirmationBelief In SelfEnticing Author:Miranda Otto
“In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.” PeopleKnowsWritingHas BeensMotherTermCareersInfluenceHugeGrandmotherMy GrandmotherSupportiveWriting Life Author:Tea Obreht
“My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensMightYoungCareersCrisisAmbitiousHungMight Have BeenPrematureMisplacedMidlifeMidlife Crisis Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.” PeopleIfsMadeI CanCareersIllusionIllusion Of Control Author:Diane Lane
“For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?” PeopleYearsI CanOpportunityNamesStarsCareersThirtyTomsMovie StarThirty YearsUnprecedentedCruise Author:David Oyelowo
“Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.” PeopleThinkingWritingDoneHelpingArtistGuySongOrderCareersPicksWrite Your Own Author:Jake Owen
“I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.” PeopleThinkingCareersHavens Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantCountryPlayAbleCareersRocksFrontsMusicianPerformancesJazzLastingSongwritingPunkSongwritersGroundwork Author:Amy Ray
“OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.” PeopleYearsBigsFilmKnownCareersSuccessfulFineExcitingPaidHostRespectableRubbishJuliaAmerican Film Author:Joely Richardson
“People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.” PeopleGamesCareersCryFulfilled Author:Stephen Rea
“I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.” PeopleThinkingAbleGrowsCareersEconomicSkillsReinventing Author:Chesley Sullenberger
“This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.” PeopleSoulMovingCareersNew YorkSceneFolksHearingActressesMy SoulDroppingDeliveryPouringSpoken WordCatharticVery Moving Author:Sonja Sohn
“I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.” PeopleWould BeLinesCareersWiseSmartYogaMy FriendsThriveHanging OutSanityPersonal LifeBeing Smart Author:Courtney Thorne Smith
“I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.” PeopleWantWholeHappensFoundCareersBest Things Author:Delia Smith
“I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.” PeopleFeelsLongHas BeensDifferentAbleFilmCareersComedyTelevisionInspireDramaBlessedScriptsDifferent ThingsGood PeopleBack And ForthBounce Author:Geoff Stults
“Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.” PeopleKindMeanChildrenInterestingCareersLandAppreciateDucksVery InterestingReally InterestingUps & DownsPostersFlopping Author:Lea Thompson
“So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.” PeopleThinkingMenWantFirstsActorsWinningCareersInvolvedToughIncrediblesHolesPrizeRabbitsCredibilityCameronRabbit HolesTough ManPrize Winning Author:Miles Teller
“When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.” PeopleWritingWould BeFilmActorsCareersIndustryStartingWriting LifeFilm IndustryStarting To Write Author:James Franco
“I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLooksWould BeLife IsCareersSuccessfulBenefitsComfortableFairsSelfishSuccessful LifeSuccessful CareerComfortable Life Author:George Weah
“It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.” PeopleKnowsWholeFeelingsAbleEarthSongHeavenCommunityCareersMissingCallingMovedGuitarI RealizedNashvilleHeaven On Earth Author:Sheryl Crow
“People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.” PeopleWayInspirationalDifferentSelfSuccessCareersParticularBuddhismTypeInvolvedElementsDiscoverySelf DiscoveryRenunciation Author:Frederick Lenz