Long Careers Quotes

#1. No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

Edie Brickell

#2. Comics don't usually have very long careers, and I'm 22 years into this.

Jeff Foxworthy

#3. All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

Kate Mara

#4. Realist saboteurs do not, as a rule, enjoy long careers. Everyone gets caught eventually.

Peter Watts

#5. I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#6. Looking at the players that are truly successful, you see the durability and long careers. Those are the players I respect and look up to. I hope to become a player like that.

Daisuke Matsuzaka

#7. There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.

Jeff Kinney

#8. I just like, when you look at people who have long careers in film, they're able to make films that are far away from themselves, because they're metaphorical. It creates more opportunities, I think.

Mike Birbiglia

#9. I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

Sheryl Crow

#10. During the rest of my screen career, I am going to continue doing vampires as long as people sin. For I believe that humanity needs the moral lesson and it needs it in repeatedly larger doses.

Theda Bara

#11. I'm not really struggling about my career. The struggles are in my personal life. I can't really pinpoint how long it took me to get where I'm at, and I didn't care how long it was going to take, because it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.

Tracy Morgan

#12. It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.

Bernie Mac

#13. Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

Michel De Montaigne

#14. I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

Cillian Murphy

#15. People spend their careers trying to figure out what makes a hit single. But I learned a long time ago that you can't anticipate what people want, because it's always going to change.

Joe Perry

#16. This has been a long and tiring battle for 10 years. And I'm glad it's finally resolved. My principles and reputation as a creative artist were involved here-it wasn't just about the royalties. I can now look foward to getting on with my career.

Irene Cara

#17. The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

David Ogilvy

#18. I feel as though I've been very fortunate in my career, which is not all that long, so far.

Matt Lauria

#19. There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.

Louis Jourdan

#20. As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.

Frederick Lenz

#21. People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.

Brian Tracy

#22. 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

#23. My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I want to share with the world - not the whole world which couldn't care less, but my private world, which is my country, Canada.

Joseph Plaskett

#24. I'm so thankful that I've had such a long and uninterrupted career. I count my blessings every day for that because it was so fulfilling.

Mario Andretti

#25. I'm fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working and advancing their careers, closing wage gaps that for too long have held women back from the fair economic opportunities they need.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#26. I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

Angelina Jolie

#27. Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics.

Warren Buffett

#28. An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stross

#29. The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.

Michael Ian Black

#30. I believe that I'm going to have a long career, as long as I want, and I think by me going out into the world living a little bit made me ... gave me more depth, so when I do go, going into movies is much easier for me.

Chris Tucker

#31. In my own career, I have always tried to treat my colleagues with respect and kindness, whoever they are, and am proud to have developed and mentored the careers of many excellent young scientists who will be tackling tomorrow's biological problems long after I have left the scene.

Tim Hunt

#32. I came late to galleries. A lot of people my age started their careers younger, so I was spared seeing that side for a long time.

Wade Guyton

#33. I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.

Valentino Rossi

#34. I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

Camille Claudel

#35. I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.

Ron Darling

#36. It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

Scott Weiland

#37. In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time.

Fred Melamed

#38. I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing this.

John Krokidas

#39. Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.

Erin Willett

#40. It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go for those with long-lasting careers. And that's what I've had as my target all my life.

Clive Davis

#41. I think both Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva are establishing legacies just by how long they've maintained their championship runs. I think both of them still have a lot left in their careers.

Randy Couture

#42. Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.

Ted Cruz

#43. A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

David Bowie

#44. For me my big dream that I would like to achieve is for each book to be better than the books that came before, to continue to improve and to become better as a writer and hopefully to have a long career .

Cassandra Clare

#45. I've done more than I thought I was ever going to do. I've had a very long and very satisfying career.

Bob Newhart

#46. I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.

Leonid Afremov

#47. Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles ... It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: "I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!"

Arthur C. Clarke

#48. Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer is like, and you did this long theatrical performance instead, and I'm very disappointed."

Daniel Handler

#49. I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

Dionne Warwick

#50. I like to think I have a good few years left of my career yet, as long as I stay fit and healthy. However, it's always good to have a backup plan, which is why I have been working hard to build my business portfolio outside tennis.

Andy Murray

#51. Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

Sigourney Weaver

#52. I think I've been fortunate enough to have a fairly long career and hopefully I'm at the middle of it now. And I think I'm starting to develop a certain amount of experience and a certain amount of wisdom about kind of what really matters and what doesn't matter.

Peter Berg

#53. I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.

Duncan Jones

#54. You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners.

Clive Davis

#55. At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

Iggy Azalea

#56. When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

Michael Lewis

#57. In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.

Scott Bradfield

#58. I want to congratulate Senator [Bernie] Sanders for the extraordinary campaign ... He has spent his long career in public service, fighting for progressive causes and principles, and he has excited millions of voters, especially young people.

Hillary Clinton

#59. Software craftsmanship is a long journey to mastery. It's a mindset where software developers choose to be responsible for their own careers, constantly learning new tools and techniques and constantly bettering themselves.

Sandro Mancuso

#60. 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.

Nia Long

#61. Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career: It's like the size of the crowd here today. It always surprises me. But I do appreciate it.

LaVell Edwards

#62. There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

RuPaul

#63. During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

Arnold Bennett

#64. They're always surprised with what I want to do and don't want to do. I think they're surprised I don't want to do robo-tech. I don't know, it's like they want me to have a long career. And be prolific and make big movies.

Cary Fukunaga

#65. 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."

Milla Jovovich

#66. There are tons of different reasons why you do TV series and why you don't, and how it'll affect your career, and all that. Without a doubt, it has always come down to the script for me. I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles.

Patrick Wilson

#67. college-educated workers are more likely to enjoy what they do for a living, and identify closely with their careers, so work long hours willingly.

Anonymous

#68. A bit of a theory, more a corner of the eye noticing than an airtight argument: in the course of long artistic careers, women are more likely than men to change form and style, Proteus-like.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#69. You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.

Rick Heinrichs

#70. I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective.

Angelina Jolie

#71. My whole creative career is a product of the Internet ... I'll take that back. To some degree. My fascination with cultural esoterica and trivia and so on was well-formed long before I got my first AOL account.

John Hodgman

#72. In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.

Mae West

#73. There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

Matt Damon

#74. For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.

Vita Sackville-West

#75. Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.

Frederick Lenz

#76. The success I had as a player, or the career I had as a player, is often based on the guys you play beside, the guys you play with. Playing on the offensive line, you're only as good as your weakest guy up front. I was blessed to play with a lot of guys for a long time.

Russ Grimm

#77. A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.

Melissa Manchester

#78. I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.

Amber Tamblyn

#79. Thus, those with long and glittering careers (e.g. me) tend to look down on those (e.g. Ascobol) whose names have been unearthed more recently, and haven't amassed so many fine achievements.

Jonathan Stroud

#80. The smartest people who succeed in their careers for the long-term never stop working hard, never stop building relationships, and never lose touch with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Eric Jackson

#81. A career is a job that has gone on too long.

Jeff MacNelly

#82. Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.

David Galenson

#83. Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) .

Arvind Ethan David

#84. I think it's really important to do what you want to do because in the long-run it's your career, you want everything to go well and you want to be happy with what you're doing. It was really important for me to take control of my career.

Cher Lloyd

#85. I've been making music for a long time, but I've been waiting to do it right, because I don't want people to think it's just a stepping stone in my career. A lot of actors go that route as a way of building their careers. I don't want it to be seen as that.

Evan Ross

#86. During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective, ...

Preston Manning