Quotes About Career

Me and my dad sat down in May and we spoke and thought the next step would be for me to push into a Premier League team and we felt the better route for me was to leave Chelsea.

Meryl Streep spoke about roles drying up. If that happened to her, can you imagine our plight? This is the reality of women performers all over the world.

Yes, I've always been quiet about my personal life and I've never really spoken about what I was doing apart from work.

Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.

I'm the spokesman for ADT, and ADT, brother, pays better than most actors make on film.

I set out to be a comedian, and then the spokesperson thing is kind of just something that came along with it.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

Of course I had a piece of luck I couldn't have imagine for myself in a million years: I got an agent. That sped up the process. I'd say it's a good idea, getting an agent.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

My husband always felt that a marriage and career don't mix. That's why he's never worked.

It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.

I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

Dreams are more personal. We tend to only dream about issues that impact us directly: our careers, our marriage, our children, our family and friends.

Marriage is a linchpin in many womens lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.