Quotes About Career

I'm lucky to have been able to represent different companies over my career.

I'm a very, very proud Canadian, and having the privilege to represent my country on the international level was the highlight of my 18-year career.

I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.

After 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' I had a bit of an identity crisis as far as where I wanted to place myself in the business. When it's all new and fresh, there is a lot of pressure to know what you represent, and I didn't really get that.

Especially in the first 10-15 years, your regular resume is not an authentic representation of you - you don't really have that many notches on your belt, so to speak. In a super-competitive job environment, you need to be able to tell a multi-dimensional story about who you are as a person.

Every interview I do, it's basically 'how did he do it,' and I owe it all to my representation, and my manager is basically like my mother, she's so picky.

I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what a black writer has to do. I didn't have the burden of representation.

I don't think that's a fair representation of life, that you have to go to college and do well to get anywhere.

In the back of my mind, I always knew I wanted to be in the sports representation business. Being an ex-player, I knew that those were the people I wanted to work with.

Both of my parents were college-educated within the curriculum in Haiti. When they came to the United States, both had to learn English. My mother worked in retail and continues to do so today, working as the lead sales representative in a fine-jewelry store. My father became a machinist.

My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.

At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I am not a career politician, even though this is my 12th year in the United States House of Representatives.

I am most grateful for having bad eyesight, which prevented me from becoming a commercial pilot and instead, led me to having the best job in the world - representing the people of California's 47th Congressional District.

I've shown throughout my career that I have always put representing my state and country first and foremost. I love what I do.

Hollywood represents a great deal of security for my family, and that is what I've come in search of.

In 2008, Putin's message was, 'We aren't like a Central Asian republic, we aren't going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions.' This is all abolished now. The very idea of a governing party and party career, as you have in China, that didn't work.

I'm a Republican. I may go into politics myself.

I am a hungry actor, and I want to do good films.

Obviously, as a young, young, hungry fighter, I'd like to be fighting three or four times a year.

If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.

Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.

I loved fashion, I really did, but I was not obsessed with it. I wanted to be behind the scenes, like in that movie 'Broadcast News.' Holly Hunter - her I wanted to be.