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The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.
Julio Iglesias
Musician · American · b. 1943
I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed.
Pauline Frederick
Actress · American · 1883 – 1938
I gave up my childhood for a career.
Brenda Lee
Musician · American · b. 1942
We want to christen every city that Kris has played in during his professional career.
Anna Benson
Celebrity · American · b. 1976
I have been driven demented in my career.
Lord Mountbatten
Soldier · British · 1900 – 1979
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.
Kit Williams
Author
You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.
Obie Trice
Musician · American · b. 1977
And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.
Terrence Howard
Actor · American · b. 1969
My government career is over.
Linda Tripp
Celebrity · American · b. 1949
My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.
Jack Nicholson
Actor · American · b. 1937
Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
Loretta Young
Actress · American · 1913 – 2000
Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.
Ruben Studdard
Musician · American · b. 1978
As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.
George Clooney
Actor · b. 1961
It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.
Priscilla Presley
Actress · American · b. 1945
Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Composer · British · b. 1948
I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.
Gene Wilder
Actor · American · b. 1933
So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.
Victoria de los Angeles
Musician · Spanish · 1923 – 2005
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
Ben Stiller
Comedian · American · b. 1965
Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
Alec Baldwin
Actor · American · b. 1958
I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.
Caroline B. Cooney
Writer · American · b. 1947
Death is very often referred to as a good career move.
Buddy Holly
Musician · American · 1936 – 1959
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
Sam Neill
Actor · Irish · b. 1947
I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.
Randy Harrison
Actor · American · b. 1977
The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.
Morgan Brittany
Actress · American · b. 1951
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
Jon Secada
Musician · Cuban · b. 1962
When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
Bryan Ferry
Musician · English · b. 1945
We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure.
Sinbad
Comedian · American · b. 1956
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.
Justin Long
Actor · American · b. 1978
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.
Judy Davis
Actress · Australian · b. 1955
A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.
Ryne Sandberg
Athlete · American · b. 1959
To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!
Dabney Coleman
Actor · American · b. 1932
If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.
Dick Ebersol
Businessman · American · b. 1947
Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.
Rebecca De Mornay
Actress · American · b. 1961
For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
Taylor Swift
Musician · American · b. 1989
Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.
Bobby Darin
Musician · American · 1936 – 1973
I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
Benjamin Bratt
Actor · American · b. 1963
I'm not a career woman.
June Allyson
Actress · American · 1917 – 2006
I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it.
Mary Crosby
Actress · American · b. 1959
I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
Liev Schreiber
Actor · American · b. 1967
I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.
Duane G. Carey
Astronaut · American · b. 1957
It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year.
Louise Jameson
Actress · British · b. 1951
The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.
Herb Elliott
Athlete · Australian · b. 1938
A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
Maria Sharapova
Athlete · Russian · b. 1987
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.
Johnny Winter
Musician · American · b. 1944
In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
Ferdinand Piech
Designer · Austrian · b. 1937
Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
Michael Crawford
Actor · English · b. 1942
Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?
Placido Domingo
Musician · Spanish · b. 1941
I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
Sally Field
Actress · American · b. 1946