Quotes About Career

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.

I play because I know I can play the game, so it's their decision whether or not they want to keep me or they wanna trade me. Whatever decision they make, I will understand it.

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.

The Yankees are one of the best teams. I want to stay with them forever.

Medical School is the next step in my career. There is no doubt about that. My mind is still hungry and I want to continue my education.

I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do.

I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me.

I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.

I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.

I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.

Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

One of my goals is definitely break into film, and I want to do action movies as well.

I'm planning to stay in politics now, but, you know, George Burns worked until he was 100. I don't know. I don't want to be a Senator until I'm honored.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.