Career Quotes

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

~ Buddy Holly

I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.

~ Kirsten Dunst

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

~ Mike Mccready

I'm always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.

~ Jessica Williams

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

~ Luke Bryan

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

~ Orlando Bloom

The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'

~ Katharine Whitehorn

The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.

~ James Surowiecki

Getting 'SNL' was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.

~ Bill Hader

I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

~ Larry Mullen

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

~ Jason Bateman

I'm thankful that I was able to have a long, healthy career for the most part.

~ Scottie Pippen

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

~ Audrey Hepburn

The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.

~ David Thewlis

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.

~ Shigeru Miyamoto

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!

~ William Kircher

One of the key issues all veterans face is making the transition to a civilian career, and for veterans who need extra medical attention, this can be even more difficult.

~ John Delaney

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

~ Kirstie Alley

Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.

~ Mireille Guiliano

In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in an entire career.

~ Elvis Mitchell

I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.

~ Sean Bean

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

~ Rick Riordan

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

~ Mariella Frostrup

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

~ Terence Stamp

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

~ Mika Brzezinski

No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down to a central nervous system - his focus fried away unnecessary calories.

~ Elvis Mitchell

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

~ John Bolton

I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

~ Trent Reznor

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

~ Rene Russo

I've always wanted to design a Mustang. I just never really had the opportunity in my career because the timing was never right.

~ Henrik Fisker

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

~ Michael Graves

My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.

~ Michael Douglas

During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.

~ Michael Douglas

I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

~ Ram Charan

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

~ Sam Ewing

Yes's whole career was never really planned in any sort of way. It's always sad when a member leaves, but it's exciting when someone new comes in, and that regenerates the freshness of the band.

~ Chris Squire

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

~ Queen Latifah

I looked to my mom as an example. And this is what I try to tell so many women: that my mom had a career, and she went to the gym. She took care of herself.

~ Jillian Michaels

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

~ Christina Aguilera