Quotes About Career

Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I'm serious. Comedy is punishing.

No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in my twenties or early thirties I would've left because I love playing football.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.

In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit.