Quotes About Career

People believe I am selective. I am not. Directors pick me, not I them.

As long as everything is happy at home, I can be totally selfish at work.

I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'

Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.

At a certain time in your career you can't share your time with anyone else. You have to be completely selfish - so that you can write your music.

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

I like medicine. Even if I was selling a million books a year, I would still be a doctor.

There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves.

It was a really long process, dropping out of college. I was there for a semester, then I would take a semester off and go on tour, then I would go back for a semester.

I spent 15 years at IBM, then five years at Freescale Semiconductor.

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

It's a sacrifice for me. It's not really something I want to do. I don't love the idea of being a U.S. senator; I love the idea of being a mother.

I didn't want to be a senator, but I considered it anyway.

I don't want to be a senator.

I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

I'm focused, as you can tell, on 2014 and on doing my job as a senator.

On a 1 to 10 scale, I don't think that I could model, but I could definitely end a Republican senator's career.

A great script might come my way, and I could be in the middle of music. So, it's a huge choice that I have to make - if I'm going to go do a movie or if I'm going to turn it down - because it could be an opportunity that could send my career through the roof, and you never know.

As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'

Buffon has been a star from the moment he began his senior career with Parma.

When I started my career on TV, I never knew how my role or character was going to shape up or turn out to be. It was a challenging role for me and I learnt a lot from my senior actors.

I always wanted to make football a career. My senior year didn't go where I needed it to go, though, and it made the decision to turn professional in boxing easier.