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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

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