Quotes About Career

My parents are professors. My sister is a Ph.D. student. My other sister has a business.

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

I had a different agent after 'Hook,' and they were, like, 'We don't know where to go with you. It's like you've already gone to the top of what's out there for a young Asian actor.' No one had done anything higher profile than that. And I'm, like, 'OK, but I'm only 15.'

When I was on 'Mad TV,' I figured my parents were watching, and that was it. It wasn't 'Saturday Night Live,' so it didn't really have the same high profile.

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV.

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines... I like to lead a very low profile.

I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.

Gone are the days when every successful creator got their own New York Times profile. Nowadays, professional Internet creator is just another job.

Donald Trump is a fraud. Listening to him talk about how he's going to put American first again, he's spent his entire career putting his own profits first.

At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.

Drag Race' has changed my career and life profoundly.

In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors.

No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.

I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles.

When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.

M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

When you are coaching an international team, you are running a programme for 12 months of the year. You get to influence peoples' careers.

The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15.