Quotes About Career

For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My - my life's passion has been my family, my faith, and my country.

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

House of Style' changed my life. I literally had no experience in front of a TV camera before, and there I was taking over for Rebecca Romijn. My exposure heightened instantly.

I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.

I think if you do not enjoy your time, your life, if you do not live intensely and do not spend time with your family, in one way or another it will be reflected in your career.

Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life.

I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

I've moved on with my life and I'm trying to find a path to re-establish my career.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years.

I have had someone wonderful things happen to me during my career and lifetime. Of course, personally, the birth of my daughter is the highlight of my life.

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.