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Quotes About Career

The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
~ Warren Farrell
I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.
~ William Petersen
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.
~ William Saroyan
When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.
~ Yoko Ono
I remember Zachary Quinto were just about to go and do So Notorious on VH1, and I was super unemployed, and I think we spent a lot of time talking about how we weren't particularly happy.
~ Zachary Quinto
I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.
~ Justin Zackham
From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
~ Karen Morley
My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.
~ Ken Spillman
The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.
~ Kirk Douglas
When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.
~ Kurt Russell
From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.
~ Lance Reddick
I would advise to to a young girl to think about modeling for a really long time before she does it because it's not as easy as it looks - and to just be herself and not let people make her crazy.
~ Lara Stone
Five years on TV is a really, really long time.
~ Lauren Conrad
I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
~ Laurie Metcalf
In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one.
~ Leo Durocher
I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.
~ Liberty Ross
Starting at 16 years old I was in boardrooms of older executives pitching talk shows. I wanted to be the youngest talk show host for a really long time.
~ Lily Collins
When you pick a career like acting, it's challenging, but it's a lesson every time you put yourself out there. I wouldn't change it for the world - I love what I learn every single day.
~ Lisa Rinna
The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.
~ Lloyd Kaufman
I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.
~ Luis Tiant
... the time will come when no servant will be hired without a diploma from some training school, and a girl will as much expect to fit herself for house-maid or cook, as for dressmaker or any trade.
~ Lydia Hoyt Farmer
I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
~ Mackenzie Astin
In my time at St. Mary's College, drifting out of sports because it was something that began to feel really finite. And I could see that I didn't have the passion to sustain a career in sports.
~ Mahershala Ali