Careers Quotes - Page 183

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.

I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.

My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

Donald Trump may undermine some of the traditional checks on the presidency: the press in particular, but also the various government and Congressional ethics bodies, as well as the career civil service.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

So carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. You may still falter or fail, but you always know that you pushed hard and aimed high. Take a leap of faith. Fear not. Courage is the ultimate career move.

All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate a different perspective into the process, to give young women something to shoot for and someone to look up to. But all things are rarely equal.

I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.

I've been poked fun of throughout my career by fellow actors for my notes that I take. I have spiral notebooks that I carry with me on every project I do, and I take notes just so that if I have to relive a scene, if I have to go back, I know what I did.

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

When liberals start acting like they're opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain's vice presidential choice has knocked them back on their heels.

I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career

Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

I need my career. That's what validates me.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

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.

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.

I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.

I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.

I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar.

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

I believe at the end of my career I'll be retired into the recurring character hall of fame.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.