About Career Quotes

#1. But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

Woody Harrelson

#2. People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.

Emile Hirsch

#3. Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

#4. Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.

Kenny Loggins

#6. A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.

Rhianna Pratchett

#7. If you asked my dad about selecting any kind of professional career, he'd tell you, "Don't make a date with a heart attack." Meaning: You've got to pace yourself and not forget to slow down. No job is forever. So relax and have some fun.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be it chiming in with constructive criticism or giving me sound advice about my career plan.

Sara Sheridan

#9. I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

Nora Roberts

#10. I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

James Ellroy

#11. My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.

Lionel Barber

#12. I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

Francoise Gilot

#13. I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

Lena Headey

#14. One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.

John Bercow

#15. It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but you usually get the measure of what they are about on their first outing.

Bill Drummond

#16. I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.

Jasper Fforde

#17. To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.

Ian McKellen

#18. You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

Liev Schreiber

#19. When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.

Albert Camus

#20. I've never enjoyed a course or training as much as this. I feel inspired, energised and more focussed about my teaching and career future.

Alison Moore

#21. 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!

Hudson Taylor

#22. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#23. I would never accept a role that wasn't going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I'd say Holy Smoke! probably did that more than anything I'd ever done. It took me to places I didn't actually know I could go to, and that's what I want my career to be all about.

Kate Winslet

#24. If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn't had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England.

Michael Owen

#25. I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#26. Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

Randeep Hooda

#27. Then when I cut my hair short, my career tanked for about four years!

Sheryl Crow

#28. Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

Famke Janssen

#29. If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.

Patrick Whitesell

#30. I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs. It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blase about it. I can only apologize.

Peter Hook

#31. My buddies all still make fun of me about the whole 'Leprechaun' thing, and I'm proud of that movie. I'm just as proud of that work as I am of anything else that I've done. I feel like where I was in my career at the time, I committed to the character.

Laz Alonso

#32. I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.

PJ Harvey

#33. I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.

M.J. Rose

#34. I started taking lessons in third grade because I thought it was a fun thing to do. Through my acting teacher, I got my manager. That was about 5th grade. So once that happened it kind of clicked that I probably should pursue acting as a career ...

Jared Gilman

#35. I feel many, many challenges in my career but I try not to obsess about them. I deal with them, but not obsess.

Jai Uttal

#36. I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

Hallie Ephron

#37. When I look at that now, all I think about is what a master [David Fincher] I was working with, and all of the things I could have watched and learned - and I didn't. And how, now, in my career, how I would love to have a ton of takes.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#38. Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

Timothy Dalton

#39. I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

Paul Reubens

#40. What's amazing about Sarah [Brightman] is that she's sustained such a career. She just keeps going - she's like a machine. She tours and records and loves what she does. I think she's a really good example to anybody in the industry that there is life beyond the shows.

Kerry Ellis

#41. The Olympics is about bringing the world together and learning how to go through struggles. That's what inspired me before my career and that's been my inspiration ever since I was striving towards the 2008 Games.

David Boudia

#42. The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Taylor Swift

#43. It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.

Kevin Spacey

#44. In order to have a lasting career you'll need to spend time performing live to build your own audience, as it's not all about social media. Word of mouth still rules.

Eliot Lewis

#45. For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

Emmanuelle Beart

#46. Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

Wayne Rooney

#47. I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

Rachel Stevens

#48. I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I'm a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As far as careers go, that was the first career that I really thought about. Well, before that, I wanted to be a Mello Yello truck driver.

Logan Marshall-Green

#49. I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.

Serena Williams

#50. Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

Katherine Heigl

#51. As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they're supposed to happen and the way they're supposed to happen.

Jonathan Jackson

#52. My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being a 65-year-old spinster. But I don't discount love when I'm talking about not getting married. I could ... it's just something I haven't wanted to do yet.

Kylie Minogue

#53. When I decided to take on acting as a career and a profession, I didn't know much about it. I knew that I was passionate about it. There was nothing else I could think of that I wanted to do and that's when I knew it was the right choice. It was also one of the scariest moments of my life.

Drew Waters

#54. I never thought about that ever throughout the entire course of my career about choosing a specific role because it would make me seem more man-like.

Edward Zwick

#55. I can cite numerous sponsors at different places in my career that made a huge difference for me just in terms of pulling me aside and giving me a tip or some coaching, or just watching what I was doing and not being afraid to tell me the truth about it.

Denise Morrison

#56. When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

Paloma Faith

#57. One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.

Justin Cronin

#58. Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

Kate Mulgrew

#59. Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.

Lisa Gansky

#60. Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before. And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.

Al Kooper

#61. This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

Angela Bassett

#62. Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision.

Auliq Ice

#63. When you think about what the odds are to have four boys to not only be able to follow in the footsteps in a basketball career but to also be good in the secondary career as far as the broadcasting, it's pretty remarkable.

Rick Barry

#64. I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography.

Jonathan Meades

#65. I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

Michael Douglas

#66. I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

Jill Soloway

#67. What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

Paul Hogan

#68. So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

Lionel Richie

#69. Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

Denise Morrison

#70. This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.

Samuel Barnett

#71. I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

Martin Short

#72. For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

Ron Silver

#73. We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No.

Shirley Jones

#74. I started modeling when I was about 2 or 3 years old; I started with Baby Guess, and I did Guess Kids, and that was the extent of my modeling career as a kid. I took all of my elementary, middle and high school years off to focus on school and sports.

Gigi Hadid

#75. When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if somebody asked me how I would sum up my career, I would say I had a unbelievable, fabulous career.

Jim Leyland

#76. Come right out and say you want it: It's been great hearing you talk about the position. I'd love to work here, and I think I could do a terrific job for you.

Kate White

#77. I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.

Robert Redford

#78. One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.

Persis Khambatta

#79. chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.

Arnold Bennett

#80. I was lucky to marry Paul. He was a great inspiration, his enthusiasm about wine and food helped to shape my tastes, and his encouragement saw me through discouraging moments. I never would have had my career without Paul Child.

Julia Child

#81. When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.

Roger Bannister

#82. When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.

Julio Iglesias

#83. I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It's like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!

Joss Whedon

#84. I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.

Sufe Bradshaw

#85. Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile.

Ellen Ochoa

#86. Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

Imelda Staunton

#87. One of the inspiring things about Susan Sarandon career is that there's a quality of real fearlessness in it - you seem to be in it for the challenge and the experience.

George Saunders

#88. The courage to care about your people, your clients, and your career.

David Maister

#89. When I first thought about leaving the traditional route of a 9-to-5 career to pursue full-time YouTube, it was terrifying - not many people were doing it. The thought was I have to have money saved up, because this very likely might fail. From the start, I had to give it my all for it to work.

Tyler Oakley

#90. I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

Ali MacGraw

#91. I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

Kim Cattrall

#92. I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so much.

Tony Oliva

#93. I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.

Antony Armstrong-Jones

#94. When you are conscious you have all the relationships you choose to have. When you choose to be healthy and prosperous you are clear about what your body requires and the direction your career is headed.

Frank Natale

#95. A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

Michael Martin Hammer

#96. With two children of my own, I know what it means to balance the demands of family and career - and let's not even talk about finding a date for myself. Rabbi Shmuley keeps telling me he'll find me the perfect woman. My response is, 'As long as she's not a journalist'.

Michael Jackson

#97. Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.

Michael Ian Black

#98. People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs.

Madonna Ciccone

#99. All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

Janette Turner Hospital

#100. My mother set to work whilst i was 7 and I loved looking to make her really feel badly about it. Ultimately, I matured and was once very pleased with my mom as my parent and the career she had constructed for herself.

Heather McDonald