Quotes About Career

You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

I'm really interested in being a player. I'm not pursuing TV at all. If TV pursues me, that's different. I don't even want to entertain it. I think that helps me as a player.

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.

I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.

I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.

You're so young... Are you sure that's what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend?

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.

Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.

When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

I debated whether to tell them I had long since abandoned my writing career and moved into radishes and fraud, but decided the timing was wrong.

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

Criminal lawyers reported greater job satisfaction than did litigators and those not specifying an area of practice.