Quotes About Career

I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.

Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

Exactly. If you keep up this pace much longer, you'll burn out, one way or another. Your body will quit on you, or you'll make a big mistake or take a foolish risk that either kills you, kills your career, kills somebody else, or all of the above. You've come pretty damn close to that twice already.

I nodded. "I have to admit, though, that it's sure nice to have my job back." "You never lost it," Monk said. "It's yours for life." "That long?" I said. "Whether you like it or not," Monk answered me.

Of course it is. Likes are power," Mintner said, and looked at Eve. "You know what I'm saying. Isn't that how you became a homicide detective?

and listened to one of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch crime novels. Bosch was an LAPD detective who, over a thirty-year career that spanned about as many books, solved one major murder after another and yet his bosses still doubted his skill and integrity, regularly undermined his work, and repeatedly investigated him for misconduct. It frustrated her even more than it did him. His problem, she thought, was that he didn't know how to play politics.

Yeah," Snell said, waving a Ferrari past the truck but looking at Eve as he did it, "the same people you're giving blow jobs to every day to get your TV show. The only difference between you and Detective Garvey is that he earned his badge and doesn't have to betray other cops to get ahead.

You're ancient history, Vince. A has-been lining up for four p.m. dinner at the retirement home. You're not employable as a director anymore.

Any mention of the TV show being developed about Eve's exploits made her uncomfortable and reminded her how intricately her career was entwined with the media.

That's right. Let that be your golden rule." Nakamura smiled and leaned back in his seat. "I'm a big fan of yours, Eve. I think you've got a brilliant future in the department. I'd hate to see your career derailed by a bad decision

The corrupt, self-serving prick was trying to distract you from the truth to save his career, remember?

Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch crime novels. Bosch was an LAPD detective who, over a thirty-year career

Of course not. It's all on you. I'm the fat old guy who has been here for decades, proven he's a stand-up guy, and is on his way out. I'm blameless. You're the young, attractive publicity whore who doesn't care how many careers you have to ruin, or deputies you have to kill, to get to the top." "My God, is that what people are actually saying?

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

I only make movies to finance my fishing'.

I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job.

You have to understand, I don't play golf for fun. It's my business. When the mailman starts delivering mail on his off day, that's when I'll start playing golf for the hell of it. I like to play in tournaments. There are many great courses around the world that I have never played that are next door to tournaments. I have not played them because I don't play for fun

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

I was tired of working in the lumber industry," Phil said. "I was sure I could find a better job, and look at me now—cook on a dilapidated submarine. Life keeps on getting better and better." "You always were an optimist," Klaus said.