Quotes About Career

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Hillary Clinton is a person who has enormous - I have enormous respect for, has a very distinguished career.

A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.

I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. Ive showed them a certain respect for this career.

My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.

The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it's a bad thing, but Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets 'Spider-Man.' Are you kidding me? You cannot win.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

to choose your partner so that you can continue working is a lot more constructive that giving one up.

By 2050, not only the idea of a job for life but even that of a profession for life might seem antediluvian.

Bust most experts think on a timescale of academic grants and college jobs. Hence, 'very far away' may mean twenty years, 'never' may denote no more than fifty

The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!

I spent fifteen years working for various publishers editing text and reference books, including a beautifully edited but mind-numbing accounting textbook. That didn't get me any closer to being a published novelist, though it made me a crackerjack editor.

My first novel, Death Will Get You Sober, came out on my sixty-fourth birthday--not quite the career path I expected.

I've never met anyone who has convinced me to say, "No, I'm not gonna take the next Spielberg film, I think I'll stay here and have a baby." I've never met anyone of that caliber.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

Your task is not to find a job, but to find what makes you happy and do it with all your love.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

Don't be a boss basher. One day you may be the boss. Don't be a company basher. If the company is so bad, why

It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.