Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dylan Moran

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

Dylan Moran

I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

Douglas Booth

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

Dorothy Fields

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

Donald Pleasence

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

Donald Pleasence

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

Donald Miller

It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

Dolly Parton

I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

Dolly Parton

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

Dick Murphy

I want to be mayor, but I don’t need to be mayor. I’m not a career politician.

Dermot Mulroney

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

Delia Smith

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

Deepak Chopra

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Debbie Macomber

Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.

Dean Norris

Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.

Deborah Bull

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

Amber Tamblyn

I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.

Amber Tamblyn

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

Anthony LaPaglia

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

Anthony Mackie

I work out every day just to keep in shape. I feel like I never want to get stuck in a position where when you need somebody with great arms, you call Anthony Mackie. That hasn't been the calling card for my career, and nor do I want it to be.

Chuck Klosterman

Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was no Internet at all, and now when I finish it, there will be nothing but the Internet.

Christopher Walken

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

Anne Sweeney

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

Annette Funicello

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

Angela Lansbury

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.

Angela Lansbury

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

Angela Lansbury

The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.

Anna Friel

It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.

Anita Hill

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

Clayton Christensen

In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.

Claire Danes

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.

Claire Danes

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

Clint Eastwood

That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.