Quotes About Career

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

I have written in a lot of genres, that's true, and I'm not sure it's always served my career well.

You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

I have genuine empathy for the fact that if you're a professional footballer, you've often started at three years old, you've been found, you've been scouted, you play, you play, you play, you make millions, you live this incredible life. And then you reach 35, and suddenly you have to stop doing it, and you haven't been taught anything else.

It's all about trying to find those projects where you get to enjoy yourself, because I think that's when you create as well: when you're genuinely excited about something. Then you're not just doing it because it's your job.

The thing is, I get asked when I first knew I wanted to act so often, and I genuinely can't answer it. It's just... I got the bug, and that's it.

Every day, I genuinely count my blessings. One of the greatest things in life is to do a job you really enjoy.

What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.

Although I have been doing plays since I was 8 years old, it was only when I started doing Shakespeare at age 19 at the Georgia Shakespeare Festival that I felt like my career started.

Playing in the German Bundesliga gave me the platform to excel in my football career.

I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

I certainly like working in Germany.

One day I'd like to show what I can do as a coach in Germany. But I won't bend over backwards for a job in the Bundesliga and lock myself in my house for 24 hours just to win other people's approval.

I went away in Germany and I think I did well. But the main goal for me has always been playing in an Arsenal shirt week in, week out.

I want to stay in Germany and with Bayern for as long as possible.

I had babies at the age of 43 because sometimes you get so caught up, you are making your life, building your career and may be you don't want to get married.

You don't have to get married and have a family, like a lot of women try, to live the American Dream. There's nothing wrong if you're in your 40s and don't have kids and are president of your own company.

There's always an assumption that when the girls get married they don't want to work.

As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this.

I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.

Let's be honest, I don't think anyone ever wants to settle down in Hollywood - it's a place you go to work. And once you've hit it, you get out of there as soon as you can. It's definitely not a place you want to get married and have kids.

I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.

I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his.