Quotes About Career

I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

I'm having the time of my life. I've never looked forward to going to work so much every day. I'm loving it; it's great. It's what I love to do and I wouldn't want to be doing anything else.

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

Sometimes you do a film because the script is amazing, sometimes you do it because you get to work with amazing people, and sometimes you do a film because they pay you money.

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.

If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work.

I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.

I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work, and they worry more about whether it's good experience

I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not.

I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday and realised that my life wasn't so bad.