Quotes About Career

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

After a hit show is over, you soon realize this is a very tough business ... brutally tough. But I'm a better actor and I have more gravitas than I had at 24 with bleached-blonde hair.

I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that

We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

I was the happiest and highest paid straight woman in the business.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.