Quotes About Career

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

I always tell the kids, basketball is not going to be there forever, get a good education and make good choices.

I know I haven't spent a lot of time with my children because my job takes me all over the world and takes me away from my children, but I've given them a good education and security. If anything happens to me, my children's future is well-secured. So I think I've done well as a father.

People need to realize that community colleges really give you a good education. And they do - that's just a simple fact of it.

If I wasn't a footballer, I don't know what I would have been. But that was through sheer determination, a good family and lots of luck.

At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.

I love acting in Tamil cinema. I have decided quite consciously to do at least one good film every year in Tamil.

I was never serious about Bollywood films, but when I was offered a film like 'Shanghai,' I took it because it is a good film.

There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.

I have nothing to complain about, but it was new for me to figure out how to balance being the best at my job, and also as a woman, to be a good friend, girlfriend, daughter, and all of the things away from my job that are important to me.

I started out as an assistant to a director on two movies, Miguel Arteta. The movies I worked on were 'Chuck and Buck' and 'The Good Girl.' I didn't even know I wanted to be a director until I started working with Miguel.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.

Not every job is a good job.

I went to college, got a job. Not a good job or anything but I was fully set to be an office employee for my life.

It's concerning to me when people look at the course of education as just a means for getting a job four years later. If you're just doing this because it is going to lead to a 'good job,' you're better off doing something you're genuinely interested in.

You do your work, and you do the best you can. That's what my parents taught me, and I think what they were saying was, 'If you do a good job, other things may come your way.' That's really been the way my career has unfolded throughout the years.

It's not an easy job, but the satisfaction an actor feels when he has done a good job and the money make it worth while.

People shouldn't choose their careers on whether it's cool or not. They should choose their careers on, 'Are they good at it, do they love it, is it going to give them a good life?'

A Few Good Men' and 'As Good As It Gets' were the advent of me taking film seriously.

I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.

The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.

My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.

I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.