Quotes About Career

People got to know me very gradually. It was little things. It's still like that. 'That Thing you Do!' was a big thing. It's always been very gradual. Like I say, people still ask me if I'm still acting. 'I've seen all your movies. What are you doing now?' Ha ha!

The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

Making community college more accessible means more of our high school graduates can learn the skills they need to get good paying jobs.

Bright graduates will either set up their own companies or come and work for us or a consulting firm or government. But going to work for a small company if you are really good? No way.

When I graduate, I will either run a division of a company... or I'll get funding for my own company.

I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?

Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life.

I was the only BBC graduate trainee in 1961 interested in arts broadcasting. I knew I wanted to write, and I had to make a living.

I want to do 'The Graduate!' When Lorraine Bracco's finished, I'm up for it.

My boys have both said they want to be in the movies or on TV, and anytime I hear that, I say, 'That's wonderful; you're free to do it right after you graduate from college.'

I thought that's what you did, you know? You graduate high school, you went to work.

When I was about to graduate, I asked myself, 'What could you do every day and never get sick of?' My answer was really simple: Make cookies.

In a world where you graduate with a theater degree from college, you gotta find your bread job. You gotta find that job to pay the bills.

We must ensure that our students graduate high school and then earn a postsecondary certificate or degree.

Obviously, I'm going to graduate college. So if sports don't work out, I'll have something to fall back on.

This was what you did in the '50s: You get married, get a job, put your husband through graduate school, and have two kids - a girl and a boy.

I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.

I graduated college and moved back home, started helping my dad, did landscaping for a living.

While at Parsons, I interned at Marc Jacobs, which was great. When I graduated, I went to work at J. Crew; that was also really great.

I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated in 1968 it was quite a shock to find out that there was a world out there and that it wasn't going to support me.

When I graduated from college, I thought that I would probably never be an actor because it seemed like everyone was big by the time they were 20 or not at all.

When I graduated college, I decided that I was going to try to be an actor, but it was my dirty secret.

I actually didn't finish NYU. I would have, but I was lucky enough to get my foot in the door before I graduated.