Quotes About Career

Young women who I think do the best job of balancing family life and a big career start businesses or work for themselves. That's the best way of being in charge of your life.

I eat for a living, so working out is definitely part of my job, the same way that the eating, tasting, and drinking is.

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able to work with the directors I've worked with if I did those studio films.

I enjoyed it [commercial work] until I stopped. You could travel and get around. I can't really explain why, I just didn't want to do it anymore.

I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

Recognize a rock 'n' roller for what he is, which is a damned lucky guy not to have to work for a living.

I try to take my interests and make them my work.

Over the course of my career, I've had the great fortune of working with some incredible filmmakers who have protected me and inspired me and taught me what an honor it is to work in film.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.

I've always worked. I have always been too responsible. But I don't know how to live any other way. I think that this discipline was also demanded of me by my work.

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

Working on a studio picture, I can't help but be aware of all the political stuff that's going on. I have to work to be able to survive, in a sense.

I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.

My work has always been important to me. The reason I continue to do it is because it's so much fun for me. I love my work and so that's what keeps me in the game.

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most.