Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Marc Vallee

In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

Jean Chretien

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

James Caan

I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.

James C. Collins

Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.

Christopher Lee

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

Christopher Hitchens

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.

George Harrison

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

Gaspard Ulliel

Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

Jason Mraz

I still go through stages of wanting to try other trades. When I was young I thought I'd be a magician. And then a cartoonist. Or a professional roller-skater. But there wasn't much support for those on career day.

Hillary Clinton

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Eva Mendes

I don't go to premieres. I attend film openings I'm in, and that's about it. Fame and celebrity doesn't matter to me. The longevity of my career does.

Eva Mendes

I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career

Eva Longoria

If I were single and had my career, I'd be happy. You have to be happy with what you're doing.

Eva Longoria

There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career.

Ernie Harwell

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

Famke Janssen

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Eve Arnold

I had in mind a long career.

Francis Ford Coppola

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. I didn't make that money necessarily from the film business, but I eventually made a lot of money and that's what I do. Of course, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate, and I'm pretty content with my life.

Frances McDormand

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

Fran Tarkenton

Television isn't my career. Business is.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Christian Bale

Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.

Christian Bale

I started my career without fans.

Christian Bale

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

Christian Bale

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

Chris Vance

As things have progressed and I've gotten older, I've gotten more and more involved on the producing side. It's been a natural progression. The more you become exposed in a particular medium, the more you can bring to the table and people start trusting you. You're valued a little bit more, so you have more of a voice. It's something I would like to do, through the rest of my career.

Chris Tucker

I told a joke and people laughed and it was the best feeling. I knew I wanted to do this as a career. I never knew I could get such a high from telling a joke. There's something so extraordinary about having people listening to you and hanging onto your words - it's a great feeling.

Chris Tucker

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

Chris Kirkpatrick

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

Faith Evans

Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.