Quotes About Career

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

Coaching has been my entire life.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.

The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

I hope that having my life and having an education will lengthen my career.

The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.

My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

The fight for photography became my life.