Quotes About Career

My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

If I feel like I've reached this greatness in my career than there's no more room for growth. I don't think I'm ever going to get there. If I ever get complacent, it's time for me to bow out.

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don't get hit very often.

Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.

See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.