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Quotes About Career

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.
~ Kirstie Alley
My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.
~ Donna Karan
People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.
~ Michael K. Williams
I wanted to be an actress at a very early age and then decided to become an orthodontist after working in Dr. Richard Boyd's office in high school.
~ Ainsley Earhardt
I worked at Deutsche Bank for about eight years on their overnight shift. I was working consistently in the theater. I just wanted to know that my rent was going to be paid on time!
~ Chandra Wilson
The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.
~ Cicely Tyson
I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
~ Aaron Paul
I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.
~ Aaron Schock
I always think of myself as a working girl.
~ Dolly Parton
If I was working nine to five, acting would be my hobby... I always feel like maybe I should do an Open University degree. But I'm never going to.
~ Claire Foy
I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
~ Aaron Eckhart
I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.
~ Emmy Rossum
I'm not a movie star, but I've been an actress forever, and the first time I went on a date with my husband, he said to me, 'So I hear you're an actress. I've never seen anything you've done.' We were like, oh gosh, 21 when I met him, and I laughed, because I'd done 'Life Goes On,' and 'Christy,' and I mean, I'd been working forever.
~ Kellie Martin
I'm not at my best when I'm not working - I'm certainly not at my happiest. Acting will always be my first love.
~ Johnny Galecki
Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the rest of your career. You will prioritize profitability from the start.
~ Jon Oringer
I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!
~ Adam Faith
For working mothers, creating a work-life balance is critical, as we must ensure we do not neglect any significant part of our lives - our children, our family's health, our own health and fitness, our marriage, and, of course, our careers.
~ Sonali Bendre
My main hobby is working. I love what I do.
~ Carl J. Lindner, Jr.
Working at Palace was one of the happiest episodes of my football career, even though the ending was one of the most upsetting and traumatic.
~ Neil Warnock
I did, of course, eventually find my way into television, taking all kinds of jobs, climbing the ranks rung by rung. Anyway, it was several years later, when I was working nationally in Hollywood as the announcer and second banana on ABC-TV's late-night entry, 'The Joey Bishop Show,' that I had my big moment.
~ Regis Philbin
Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.
~ Jason Bateman
When I got emancipated from the foster care program and I became homeless, it was a struggle. I was working at an airline, and then I stopped to pursue comedy 110%.
~ Tiffany Haddish
My journey of working in Telugu filmdom has helped me grow as an actor and person.
~ Raashi Khanna
While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.
~ Robert Greene