Quotes About Career

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

I'm one hundred percent into my life, and into my fighting career. This is who I want to be in the future - as a mother - and if I'm going to leave the sport, I leave the sport. When I finish with fighting, I'm done.

I've made somewhere around 150 pictures, and a lot of them are B-pictures, I can tell you that. I'd say there's about one hundred of them I don't remember.

You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life.

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

I could have earned lots of crores by doing hundreds of more 'Rangeela' that came my way.

I hung around New York and did a little stock-company stuff. I wasn't really sure at that time if I even wanted to be an actor. I got no encouragement.

I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.

I have a hunger for good roles.

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression.

a time when newly graduated college kids could come to New York and get paid to write. We had no clue that we were embarking on careers that would vanish within a decade.

We had no clue that we were embarking on careers that would vanish within a decade.

Like the McMansion I rented, the bar featured symbolically in my childhood memories – a place where only grown-ups go, and do whatever grown-ups do. Maybe that's why I was so insistent on buying it after being stripped of my livelihood. It's a reminder that I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things.

I was not raised by big-dreamer parents who pictured their child as a future president. I was raised by pragmatic parents who pictured their child as a future office worker of some sort, making a living of some sort.

I know that losing a job is incredibly stressful, and particularly for a man, they say it can be like a death in the family

I know, I know, I know that losing a job is incredibly stressful, and particularly for a man, they say it can be like a death in the family...

It's probably the reason I'm a second-rate journalist. One of them, at least.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.