Quotes About Career

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.

~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.

As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you Mama, but Renata.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

Find your passion, and it's no longer work.

Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.