Quotes About Career

Work is life. Work is opportunity.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.

I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there.

The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn't devote his life to it of his own free will.

If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible to work, I have become passable at it.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

My life is basically my work.

What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.

You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.

People who work in distribution will be distributors all their life.

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.

You don't know where a sport can take you, so I want to make sure that I have an education behind me in case things don't work out.

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I've been working for a long time and I've just really been allowed to work, with very little of the baggage and the pressures that can come with my job.

So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.