Quotes About Career

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

Don't fall in love with your leading man. Of course, that's just what I did.

When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

I was a pizza delivery man. I worked at a gas station. I worked a lot of jobs, man. A lot of jobs.

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.

Before 'Mad Men,' I definitely had very dry spells and I know what those feel like, and I don't think that ever leaves you as an actor.

I'm not a leading man.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.