Careers Quotes - Page 119

I'd done light comedy. In some quarters, About Last Night... is a romantic comedy. So it wasn't like I'd been doing Sophie's Choice my entire career. But for whatever reason, nobody had really given me the room or the ability to be out and out funny. And Lorne [Michaels] and Mike [Myers] and Chris [Farley] and Dana [Carvey], that crop really helped me do that.

I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.

It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an improviser. And then you think about it for a minute, and I smartened up and realized that the only way to sustain a career is to generate your own material. Or to be in control of your career as best you can. And in allowing yourself to do that it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And then you're like "Oh, producing is a thing."

The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

Depending on their fondest memory of you, most people hold on so tightly to their fondest memory they don’t usually let you be anything greater than that. And that’s one of the things I think I allowed myself to be a victim of earlier in my career. What I learned as I got older is I decide. I decide what it’s like for me, not other people. You can be whatever you’d like to be. You just have to choose it.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

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.

I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.

I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.

There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

I can't tell you the number of times people have told me if I just lost 10kg, I could go much further in my career. But I'm determined to show them - and other average-size women - it is doable and possible.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

I raise money the old fashioned way, I go out and tell people what I think. And I say to them, "If you hire me, I'm a CEO, and I'll listen to you. But at the end of the day, I'm going to make the decision, something I've done throughout my whole career with, frankly, great success."

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.

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.

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.

It's a very beneficial experience for me that America has started to be interested in me. I get offers here, and I'm very open to having a new spring in my career here.

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.