I've been doing stand-up 29 years; there is no other career when you're finding your stride 30 years into it.
I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to '65 when he wrote his most famous "protest songs," like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin.'"
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.
I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the beginning of my career, there was this expectation of a young designer being edgier, cooler, more downtown. But I was never that person.
I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'what's your advice?' first I say, 'be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'
I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.
I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.
I struggle sometimes superficially with my management or with my own career about how much time I spend traveling or giving myself away to promote my music or myself when I'd rather be gardening or surfing or being at home with my loved ones. And everyone struggles with that; everyone struggles with having to go to work. And I struggle with how humankind ended up this way.
I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.
Running has been great for keeping me fit throughout my acting career.
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous of their autonomy, sensitive to the needs of writers and to the diverse interests of readers. If money were their primary goal, these people would probably have chosen other careers.
Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.
You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are really going to do much end up having a career. I don't think anyone really knows what it is that drives somebody to get on their computer and want to download a song.
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.
I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.
I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.
I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.
My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.
I want people to know about these visionary artists. I want people to know what they stand for and (that) they are representing something unique, something fresh. I am just so excited about their careers.
'Dr. Quinn' came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then.
I haven't counted, obviously, but I reckon I've lost over a year and a half of my career through injury so far.
At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.
I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.
I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.
