Quotes About Career

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

One thing that is clear to me: as a society, we put way too much emphasis on a slip of paper - that college diploma.

All that time, you go, 'God, am I slipping away here?' And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work.

I have been reporting on celebrity stuff my whole career and am very aware that fame is a slippery slope.

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

You know what's been interesting about my career? It's been this slow rise with long plateaus.

It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.

I've been asked, 'What was your big break?' I don't feel like I've had a big break. It's been a slow, slow break.

A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.

I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

I had a great career. I have no reason to complain. It's the way it goes in nature. You slow down. And I believe I lasted a lot longer than a lot of people.

It was quite jarring to go from newspapers to magazines, and the reason I did it was because I had my second son, and with my second child, I just thought, 'I can't travel at will,' which you really need to be able to do. And so I had a sort of slow realization that I could no longer do the job that I loved.

I've learned that everything is a slow process in the TV and movie industry.

As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.

I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.

I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn't a plan.

In terms of my career, it's been a lot of incremental improvement slowly over time.

I was happy to be in the Argentina league. Then I started to play slowly, and I went to Italy and I started in the second division.

When I slowly got my confidence back, Akshay Kumar said why don't you be a part of 'Dhadkan' and then slowly I started picking up cameos and guest appearances, and those became hit.

I have slowly paced myself in movies, and I am pretty happy with what I have done there.

I want to have a long career, so I'm fine with it growing slowly.

I always saw myself doing comedy, so when I got the job on 'All My Children' it was not my thing - I had to slowly get into it.

The number one thing I would say to someone who wants to start a business is if you really can't sleep at night and smack the passion out of yourself, then go for it, but if you can live a happy life working for someone else, do that.

My profession is very important but it's a small part of my life.