Top 100 Quotes About My Career
#1. Beyonce is my role model. You know how people say, 'What would Jesus do?' I always say, 'What would Beyonce do? In her career, what decisions would she make?' And I really think it helps me guide my career and be really nice to every fan and every person that I work with.
Todrick Hall
#2. I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
Steven Spielberg
#3. Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.
John Glover
#4. The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.
David Rudisha
#5. In terms of my career and stuff, Game of Thrones has just been such a blessing because people really love the show.
Nathalie Emmanuel
#6. I'd really like to have a family at some point. Not that I'm not focused on my career - of course I am. And if a great project comes my way, then of course I'll take it. But I'm not actively out seeking something specific.
Megan Fox
#7. It gets super dark. I did a bunch of intense indie movies when I was starting out in my career and I was always in a bad mood because, when you're dealing with the subject matter of losing your baby, getting raped and all that stuff, it's not fun to go through. You really have to go there.
Busy Philipps
#8. I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#9. If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
Lars Von Trier
#10. One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.
Jonah Hill
#11. Fans made me. The fans gave me a chance, and they made me. Beyond that, my career has been trials and tribulations and ups and downs, so I have to have true fans riding with me.
Sean Combs
#12. The moment I used my adversity to my advantage, my career exploded.
Eminem
#13. Early in my career, I had difficulty breathing during workouts and my performance on the ice suffered. It wasn't until I was diagnosed with EIB and received the proper treatment that I was able to reach my peak performance.
Apolo Ohno
#14. Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.
Howard Keel
#15. As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.'
Pat Burns
#16. I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn
#17. The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.
John Waters
#18. When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.
Haile Gebrselassie
#19. Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.
Dana Hill
#20. I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.
Brady Anderson
#21. So grateful for your continued belief in my books. I'd like to thank, most importantly, the fans who have made my career possible, who inspire and galvanize me to write more and better.
Lauren Oliver
#22. I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.
Jose Ferreira
#23. Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.
Ricky Skaggs
#24. When I came out, I was 68, and I was totally prepared for my career to recede when I spoke to the press for the first time. What happened after that blew me away. I started getting more offers. My career blossomed.
George Takei
#25. Suddenly it was gone. I'd lost more than my voice and my career. I'd lost my best friend.
Jack Klugman
#26. I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.
Gilbert Arenas
#27. I became an actor because I enjoy playing a variety of different people rather than playing one person for the rest of my career.
Dominic Sherwood
#28. Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
Valentino Rossi
#29. Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.
LaToya London
#30. I don't want to be the biggest superstar. I want to be good at my job, and I want my work to go down in posterity. I am working for the longevity of my career.
Sonam Kapoor
#31. I didn't learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments, I still struggled with consistency, and I relied on my strengths, which were hitting the ball long and high, and I could chip and putt with the best of 'em.
Tom Watson
#32. I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
Natasha Henstridge
#33. 'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.
Paddy Considine
#34. People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
Patricia Kaas
#35. It's really hard to find parts that challenge me as an actor these days. At this point in my career, I feel like I can just sleepwalk through most of my roles and still do a better job than 90 percent of the actors out there.
Zach Braff
#36. I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.
Martina Mcbride
#37. God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.
Allen Iverson
#38. This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said.
"I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.
Megan Whalen Turner
#39. This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.
Placido Domingo
#40. Well, Milwaukee is a special place to me. It's where I started my career playing in Appleton. Getting cheered on the road is something I haven't been use to.
Alex Rodriguez
#41. 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
Gurinder Chadha
#42. Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.
George Steiner
#43. Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?
Brion James
#44. I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
Patrick Ewing
#45. My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.
LeRoy Neiman
#46. I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.
Karen Joy Fowler
#47. Edwards said the greatest moment of his career was winning the national championship. The lowest moment (of my career) happens every time we lose to Utah.
LaVell Edwards
#48. One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick.
Louise Nurding
#49. I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.
Carole Landis
#50. An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.
Bentley Little
#52. Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.
Brigitte Bardot
#54. There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.
Darren Aronofsky
#55. I never thought about settling down. I was obsessed with my career - I was blinkered. I finally met a woman who was worthy of me. Then we settled down and had many children.
Ron Moody
#56. I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.
Dee Wallace
#57. One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'
Gloria Gaynor
#58. In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
Kabir Bedi
#59. I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.
Rainey Qualley
#60. The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background.
George Foreman
#61. I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs.
Olivia Newton-John
#62. If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right circumstances come up, my career is done.
Jose Carreras
#63. The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score ... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.
Michael Owen
#64. I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.
Giovanni Ribisi
#65. Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals.
Marvin Sapp
#66. Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.
Gail Kelly
#67. There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.
Hugh Dancy
#68. I think I'm lucky in life and not just in football. I was very fortunate to play for a great organization and a great team that was really good near the end of my career.
John Elway
#69. Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies.
Edward James Olmos
#70. I don't have siblings, which is probably the biggest reason why my parents were able to give the attention to my career that they did.
Christine Lakin
#71. That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.
Dennis Eckersley
#72. I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.
Robert Urich
#73. Im now projecting my career in a totally different direction. I am going to work less-way less. And I want to work better. I want to direct again, I want to do more theatre, and I want to do exactly those movies that I want to do.
Antonio Banderas
#74. Wayne's done way more for my career than Jay-Z. Wayne is the reason I'm here.
Drake
#75. I think I had a kind of pause for insight in my 20s when I wasn't in a relationship and my career wasn't going the way I wanted it to go. I had time for reflection then.
Ray Liotta
#76. The two things I've been told most often since my career took off - by taxi drivers, lifelong friends and everyone in between - have been, 'Don't ever change, Margot' and 'You can't do that anymore, Margot.'
Margot Robbie
#77. I'm not a movie-based person, in terms of how it affects my career, the industry. I don't care about that. I probably haven't been too smart about that.
David Caruso
#78. I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.
Jon Beason
#79. I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place.
Martina Mcbride
#80. I got my career started late so, even though I'm getting older, I don't have as much wear and tear on my arm. I feel good. I really do.
Kurt Warner
#81. It's no coincidence that 'Night at the Museum' completely blew the lid off my career. I finally got a handle on tone.
Shawn Levy
#83. As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.
Annette Funicello
#84. I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold War, mapping Russian installations.
Sarah Parcak
#85. When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.
John Travolta
#86. At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.
Mario Testino
#87. I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was 'The Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid.
Dario Argento
#88. If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#89. I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.
Fiona Apple
#90. I find awards frivolous. When I began my career, I was told that I deserved an award for a certain performance, but then I couldn't turn up on the day of the show. Then I was told that the award went to someone else. That's when I realised the truth behind it all.
Emraan Hashmi
#91. Manchester United? That's not an option. I am staying at Bayern Munich. Period. I had a great time under Van Gaal at Bayern, he has been very important for my career but I am very happy at my current club.
Arjen Robben
#92. I want to do an action movie so badly, it just has to happen at some point in my career. I have to do an action movie. Like, I want to do the Angelina Jolie thing - the guns and the blowing things up.
Mark Indelicato
#93. There was a strong focus on performance and respect for people. And one of the points that my father always made was that with all the challenges and obstacles and barriers, the one thing you can control is your performance. And that is one thing I have tried to adhere to throughout my career.
Kenneth Chenault
#94. I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.
Susie Bright
#95. If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.
Frederic Chopin
#96. My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.
Nancy Roman
#98. In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
Gaston Lachaise
#99. At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.
Malaika Arora Khan
#100. If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.
Van Jones
