Quotes About Career

When I was young, I was very blessed to have this insight that my best work would be when I was an older actress. I just always knew that as a young actress.

I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

My mother insists women must have financial independence, which is why I completed my degree in medicine.

I'm heavily influenced by European and American cinema, but the further I get in my career, the more I find myself looking back East for inspiration.

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist.

I don't know if I'm necessarily a role model, but hopefully I can inspire any artist - Latin or otherwise - to do this thing for a living.

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

When I look back at my basketball career, I want to say I tried to inspire as much as I could.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.

Music inspires me, and I'm grateful that I've been able to make a career out of something that I'm so connected to.

I just don't want to ever make decisions based on something that I feel like I shouldn't do, or if it's a logical career step. It has to be something that inspires me. Because if it's not something that inspires me, then I'm not going to do it well. And that doesn't help anybody.

It's become a lot bigger than just winning championships. It's about inspiring hopefully millions at some point in my career.

I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

I've had such an inspiring and formative journey in my career.

Instagram is my 401k.

Being fired from a show - being fired in any way, in any instance, any business - is just hard.

Each actor is different and not everyone is looking for the same thing. For instance, I have never worried that people have to think of me in a certain way or have to accept me when I return to screen after a sabbatical.

In politics, you've got to have a fallback in our line of work because your career can be over in an instant. Not that I would make much money playing a harmonica.

I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I always thought that George Strait was singing a song, he made it up, and that was the end of it. But the instant I found that out, that that could be a job, I thought, 'That's the job for me. I gotta figure out how to do that.'

My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.

I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.

I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date.