Quotes About Career

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.

I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.

I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man.

There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'

For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

In all my career, in my ups and downs, I've never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.

The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it.

Kelley read every medical article he could find in papers and magazines. He was hungry to understand what McCoy was doing, especially because of his fans. Again and again, he received letters from young people declaring their intentions to go to medical school or into medical research or

Did you ever stop and ask God if your current position is the one He has chosen for you, if where you are now is where He wants you to be? It makes no difference what the salary or working conditions are like; what really matters is, has God called you to that job and place?

Only after the warrior has brought about the ninety degree shift can he in all honesty accept the title of Toltec. Thus the career of true-blooded Toltecs is short by any standard, and yet it is time enough in which to rejoice in their full power. In having chosen to walk the path of freedom warriors know that they cannot defeat old age, but only fight it off impeccably until death taps them.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.