Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonny Lang

I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.

Kevin Smith

If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.

Kellie Martin

I wouldn't want to be a superstar, like Julia Roberts or Madonna, and be on the cover of 'US' magazine when I'm twenty - that's how you know you're really hot. I'd rather have a long respected career.

Kellan Lutz

'Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.

Kurt Fuller

I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career.

Kurt Fuller

I suppose there are a lot of people who'd kill to have my career, but I still feel like a fan.

Kurt Cobain

Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

Harvey Keitel

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.

Gene Wilder

I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

Jake Busey

I had some downtime with my career and I got complacent.

Jake Owen

Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career - how many tickets are sold.

Henry Rollins

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

Helen Fisher

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

Henry Giroux

The loan crisis and the increasing slashing of funds for students, coupled with the astronomical rise in tuition, represent an unparalleled attack on the social state. The hidden agenda here is that when students graduate with such high debts, they rarely choose a career in public service; instead, they are forced to go into the corporate sector, and I see these conditions, in some ways, as being very calculated and as part of a larger political strategy to disempower students.

Mandy Moore

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.

Malik Bendjelloul

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.

John C. Maxwell

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

James Gosling

I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I met some folks outside doing something completely outrageous, and after much anguish decided to leave Google.

Laura Dern

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

Lana Parrilla

When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

George Foreman

No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn't see it until I saw it on film when I woke up!

Jon Krakauer

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

Johnny Winter

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

Johnny Evers

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

Johnny Weissmuller

Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.

Johnny Ramone

I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

Lucas Black

No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.

Louis Menand

I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment, about the difficulty of getting tenure, and generally about the perception that undergraduates have, that this is a very high-risk career to get started.

Louis Pasteur

whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

Lupita Nyong'o

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

Luis Miguel

The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.

Luis Valdez

When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.