Careers Quotes - Page 92

If I can win a Cup race, that would pretty much show my whole career that I've been able to win in everything I've gotten into.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

I've always been very focused on my career. But, it's good to have people [say], "Okay, you need a vacation." "I do? Oh yeah, you're right. I think I do."

I thought if I had straight hair and a perfect nose, my whole career would be different.

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.

My musical career was an accident.

Well you always want to play against the best. That's what you're going to get in the Super Bowl. To go against guys like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady who I have tons of respect for; I watch their games, I study their games, I try to learn from them. It gets you excited, but hopefully not too excited. Just focus on the game. Then when my career is done then I can look back at it.

A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good stuff you didn't intend, because you'll be getting plenty of criticism in your career for bad stuff you didn't mean either.'

I don't want only a career.

It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice Clay if it had been made as a documentary by someone who hated him. The fact that Clay apparently thinks this movie is worth seeing is revealing and sad, indicating that he not only lacks a sense of humor, but also ordinary human decency.

People always describe my successes in life. My successes in life tend to be personal, not career.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.

I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.

This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing.... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.

I won't do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God that'd be a boring career.

The really good thing about my career is that I never went through a phase where I played characters who had names like "Partygoer," "Waiter," or "Guy #1."

Being pulled that long and that hard for a 12-hour day gave me migraines. It's what they used to do before there were facelifts for actresses – you know, Joan Crawford's whole career was this. Then the makeup is like Earl Scheib auto body paint sprayed on my face.

I may drive in a few races next year if someone needs a substitute driver ... (but) if I were never to drive again, I have had a great career.

What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.

I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.