Careers Quotes - Page 56

Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career

People like Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and Pamela Anderson have done Playboy, and look at their careers!

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.

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.

John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.

I am both honored and blessed to have had such a wonderful career with the LA Galaxy and I am thankful for everything the club, the fans and the community has done for me and my family.

I've always been me. The last three weeks of my career, I've cut some of the best promos I've ever cut, and I do consider myself to be a promo guy.

As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.

If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope.

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Acting is a bit like being an athlete. You spend all your time getting ready to do something for two minutes. All the things that made my career in the movies happen took two or three minutes, which is the time that it takes for a 'take'. In that time, something happens. That's what people know you for, just like someone running the hundred metres.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?

I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

Eyes are very appealing to me. I also like somebody who is interested in a career for themselves and can treat me like a normal person.

Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.

The bottom line is that TV can either be a great asset to your career, or if you're a complete ass that people hate, it can be the final nail in your coffin.

I know that when I have had whatever run-ins I have had throughout my career, I have had them because I have done the things that I feel like I need to do to be the best, and that is why I am in this sport, that is what drives me.

My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.

I think every intelligent woman should have a career.

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!