Quotes About Career

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her.

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.

When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.