Quotes About Career

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

Ambitious people tend to get critical assignments. But if having a full plate keeps you from appearing available when a new opportunity arises, you'll be passed over, possibly in favor of some laggard who appears to have plenty of time to take on new duties.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.

Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.

When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.

I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.

Everyone should be sacked at least once in their career because perfection doesn't exist. It's important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life.

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.