Quotes About Career

I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.

School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

I went on a few auditions for Broadway musicals, and never stopped taking classes, but I didn't take it seriously until I was out of college.

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.

It's very strange. I can't go anywhere without somebody stopping me, which is so cool that I get to connect to people that I never might've ever spoken to, or they have an impetus to speak to me. It's created a career that I wasn't sure if I'd ever really have.

After the leg break it was a very tough time. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't sometimes thought about stopping playing football.

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.

When you do everything you can to be an F1 driver and suddenly it stops, it's not painful but it's definitely not something you were looking for.

I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.

When the manager stops calling me into his office, stops giving me advice, that's when I'll think it's time to leave Tottenham.

I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.

Hollywood stops hiring their star leading ladies when they turn 40. It's very defeating.

As a racing driver, everything you do is to get to Formula 1 and one day it stops.

I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else.

Sometimes when you are a great mom, you're not so great at your job. And then when you're good at your job, you're not so great of a mom or a good wife. It's a dance that never stops. But it's beautiful.

I've had a lot of starts and stops as far as my career is concerned, but I think what I am able to do is to put things into perspective.

A professional music career goes in starts and stops. Around 2000 I was doing a Broadway show and that was some real good energy.

I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage.

And I always was getting fired and quitting jobs, so I was not going to ruin Public Storage, and I was excited about Public Storage because I knew eventually I could be one of those property manager people that had their own apartment on site. So I had these big dreams for Public Storage.

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.