Quotes About Career

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.

Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.

I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me.

I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.

I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding, ' 'Pretty Woman, ' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.

We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

tener un jefe amable no necesariamente significa que tenga un buen jefe, y mucho menos que sea capaz de darle un verdadero empujón a su carrera.

star performers will leave no matter what. The best people are constantly looking for more opportunity, more challenge, more accomplishment. The only question is whether you will leverage your best talent to create career-long connections that provide ongoing payback via new opportunities for business transactions, talent acquisition, and investment deals.

classic female mistake. I thought that it was all about doing my job extraordinarily well. If I put my head down and worked as hard as I knew how, my value to the organization would be self-evident, and, of course, I would be recognized and promoted.

Make your passion your paycheck.

In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

I hate using that word, career. It always feels like the word bitch is hiding out between the letters.

she hit upon the three things she says a woman needs: Jesus, a job, and a husband.

I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it!

When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

As a girl she dreamed of following Fossey and Goodall to Africa; by the time she got out of grad school, there were so few apes left that her best option was to work in a zoo; now she's looking at a job as a trainer of virtual pets.

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.