Quotes About Career

I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.

I've never really dreamed of owning a home. I don't think you go into the arts and also dream of owning a home.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts.

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman

If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts.

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents.

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

I was always a performing arts kid in general - but I felt like my ultimate goal was to be an actress and be in films.

It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.