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Career Quotes


"I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career."


"If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way."


"The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted."


"Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career."


"I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had."


"Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center."


"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."


"The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck."


"An entrepreneur sells his thoughts and ideas as a packaged product."


"Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career."


"We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!"


"I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice."


"In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet."


"The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice."


"But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers."


"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."


"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."


"Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career I'd like to emulate."


"Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me."


"I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment."


"There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career."


"While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career."


"As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with."


"Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films."


"I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed."


"My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote."


"The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer."


"Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any."


"It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers."


"I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career."
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