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Quotes About Career

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.
~ Jonathan Ive
Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
~ Albert Brooks
I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.
~ Johnnie Cochran
I think it's quite lucky that I lead this lifestyle, and in fact, my career's only gotten better as I've looked older, because it ages you, the uncertainty.
~ Olivia Williams
I think that there shouldn't be an age limit to become a boss, so having that element is really important.
~ Zendaya
I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.
~ Frank Lampard
Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.
~ Rose Leslie
A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
~ Gary Cole
You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.
~ Eva Herzigova
I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.
~ Jan Karon
One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
~ Jeff Bridges
I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.
~ John Pople
I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.
~ Keri Russell
I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
~ Larry Gelbart
After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.
~ Lauren Bacall
I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.
~ Leslie Jones
I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
~ Mackenzie Astin
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.
~ Martin Amis
I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.
~ Gerald Griffin
I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
~ Rachel Zoe
A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.
~ Don Henley
There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
~ Richard Nelson Bolles
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
~ Julie Burchill