Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennie Finch

This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.

Jessica Sanchez

I always had an idea for what I wanted to do in the future and throughout my career. This wasn't, like, me figuring out what to do after Idol. I've always known the steps in what I had to do to get where I was.

Jessica Savitch

How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.

Jessica Savitch

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Jeremy Piven

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

Glenn Close

And when you're with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling, again, collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that's why I really like the pace of television.

Hart Crane

There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.

Fred Savage

I was never an ingénue at any point in my career. I was hoping that whatever I was bringing to the table, it wasn't some physical attribute that would change or fade over time.

Fred Melamed

In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time.

Graham Phillips

I don't know where my career is going to lead me. I would like my career to be as diverse as possible. I've done theater and I've done music, and I would love to keep that in my life.

Jessica Alba

It's not always so great to be objectified, but I don't feel I have much of a choice right now. I'm young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.

Howard Stern

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

Ian Ziering

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

Ice Cube

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

Ice Cube

I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood.

Ice Cube

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

James Mercer

For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.

Ishmael Reed

A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.

Ina Garten

When I thought my professional career was over, it hadn't even started yet.

Idris Elba

I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.

Idris Elba

I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

Irene Cara

I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.

Irene Cara

Here I found myself in my early 20s, at the height of my career, up against something I was totally powerless against. I had enemies I had never heard of because of this. I certainly didn't have needles hanging out of my arms, nor did I smoke anything.

Ian Hart

I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

Hugh Howey

Living frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career.

Hugh Jackman

My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'

Gloria Steinem

How can I combine career and family?

Giorgio Armani

My success was also owed to career women who maybe had big legs or ample thighs, who felt well-protected by my fluid clothing that hid their flaws.

Harry Reid

I understand that during [Sonia Sotomayor's] career, she's written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't read a single one of them, and if I'm fortunate before we end this, I won't have to read one of them.

J. Michael Straczynski

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

J. K. Rowling

I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Greg Kinnear

I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

Grace Paley

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.