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Quotes About Career

I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.
~ Paul Reubens
When I first saw Spiderman, I had no idea who he was. I later read in an article that he doesn't work much because he only picks projects he believes in.
~ Tobey Maguire
If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.
~ Megan Fox
I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
~ Ally Sheedy
I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.
~ William Petersen
I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.
~ Sasha Alexander
Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.
~ Sam Elliott
Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
~ Shelley Berman
The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work.
~ Steven Pressfield
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
~ Tim Gould
So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn't complain. It was normal.
~ Bernhard Langer
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.
~ Bertrand Russell
For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.
~ Boyd Holbrook
A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.
~ Bruno Rossi
The final solution for unemployment is work.
~ Calvin Coolidge
If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.
~ Catherine Keener
In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
~ Cathy Guisewite
I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.
~ Charlotte Gainsbourg
I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.
~ Edwin Starr
While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.
~ Emma Watson
If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, "I've gotta go on this."
~ Evan Peters
R2D2 has gotten more work since "Star Wars" than Carrie Fisher
~ Gilbert Gottfried
I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat
~ Holly Hunter
Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.
~ Jacqueline Susann