Quotes About Career

I miss the preparation for game week and all the things. I miss the draft and getting prepared for that. I grew up in this business, that's all I've ever known.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

I try to stay away from the L.A. scene as much as possible. I feel it helps me to better prepare for my roles if I am not too involved in that whole thing.

I'm very, very fortunate to be in the job that I'm in, and I would love for it to continue forever, but it won't. I have to financially and emotionally prepare for the day that 'Mad Men' will go away, because who knows what my next job is going to be?

Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.

Managing Liverpool? Yes, for sure, I have dreamt of that, but first I have to prove myself and prepare.

We have to do everything we can to help students and adult learners to prepare for the careers of today as well as the careers of tomorrow.

Having a successful career as a player does not ensure that you will be a good coach, I have to prepare myself.

I am most interested in the outcomes at schools and school districts and ensuring that all kids are prepared for college and a career in the 21st-century job market.

I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn't fathom people who could go out to clubs... I mean, if I had a 6 A.M. call, I had to be prepared. I had to be in bed at a certain hour.

I'm very happy doing what I'm doing; I don't think I'm prepared to devote my time to politics. When I am, I'd like to give it 100%. I'm not in the frame of mind, and I'm too greedy an actor to do that.

I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

It's easy to think that college classes are mainly about preparing you for a job. But remember: this may be the one time in your life when you have a chance to think about the whole of your life, not just your job.

I feel like I've been preparing for 'First Take' my entire life.

I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

You are responsible for your own career, if you ain't preparing right, you are not going to get picked.

When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

I taught preschool previously, so I was like, 'Oh, I can teach little kids to act, and I can go back home.'

I played basketball at Kentucky in 1986-87 and '87-88 and enjoyed a 12-year NBA career. After multiple injuries and seven surgeries, I developed an addiction to prescription painkillers.

What I remember about coming to L.A. is that suddenly work was as big a presence in my life as my life itself.