Quotes About Career

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

I would never put my job before my family.

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.

My job is — I make socks. That's all I do. I don't necessarily care about the show. I would rather film this — me doing what I do — than being around my family.

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

You can't have a family when you're playing because you're away from home so much. So believe me, I won't be pitching forever. I won't make it to 300 wins or anything like that. No way.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.

My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.

I'm going to have my family after I play football.