Quotes About Career

I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.

The big turn in the late 90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

You'd figure he'd go do something with his life, like maybe he could enlist and actually become a marine!

I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.

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

I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life

I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

A vocation is the backbone of life.

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.

The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't quite imagine if you've spent your whole career in a corporation.