Quotes About Career

I was a law student when I started acting in plays. I was a real estate lawyer but I continued acting on stage because that is what gave me a lot of happiness.

I fell in love with real estate, renovations, and became a licensed contractor when I was 26.

Real estate was one of the first things I was doing. I kinda like mistakenly fell into that. I bought a house early in my career, and in my head, it was like, if everything goes wrong, I own this one house, you know... As I started doing concerts and more concerts, I started buying more houses.

For the first forty years of his real estate career, my grandfather never acquired debt. In the 1970s and '80s, however, all of that changed as Donald's ambition grew larger and his missteps became more frequent.

My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.

Parents will be parents. Even now, my mom asks me sometimes, 'When are you going to go back and get a real job?'

My first real job lasted for three years. It ended the day I was unceremoniously fired.

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

I haven't got a real job.

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and I was going to go get a real job. I never thought of acting and never really wanted to be an actor.

I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.

I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

A real job is a job you hate.

I don't want to have a real job. No one wants to have a job.

I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.

We all had jobs that were just fronts. I felt like I was in the mob. I had a job, but that wasn't my real job. My real job was to be an actor. I always knew that and never forgot that.

I had to quit a 'real job' to start my first company.

I used to tell my mother, 'I'm going to have to get a real job one day.' You keep saying this will end one day, but people still call us up and ask us to sing. It's truly amazing.

We used to say when we were 20 years old, that when you reach 30, you gotta hang up your guitar and get a real job.

The last real job I had I was 16-years-old slinging fried chicken in my hometown of Naperville, Ill.