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I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

Shawn Ashmore

Actor · Canadian · b. 1979

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

Ivan Reitman

Actor · Canadian · b. 1946

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

Sidney Poitier

Actor · American · b. 1924

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

Justin Timberlake

Musician · American · b. 1981

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

Helen Reddy

Actress · Australian · b. 1941

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

Kelly Lynch

Actress · American · b. 1959

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

Bela Lugosi

Actor · Austrian · 1882 – 1956

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

Morgan Brittany

Actress · American · b. 1951

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

Freddie Mercury

Musician · British · 1946 – 1991

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

Placido Domingo

Musician · Spanish · b. 1941

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

Layne Staley

Musician · American · 1967 – 2002

Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!

Mary-Kate Olsen

Actress · American · b. 1986

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

Ronnie Spector

Musician · American · b. 1943

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

Donald Pleasence

Actor · English · 1919 – 1995

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

Jack Nicholson

Actor · American · b. 1937

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

David Ginola

Athlete · French · b. 1967

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

Lorna Luft

Actress · American · b. 1952

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.

Mandy Moore

Musician · American · b. 1984

You want the best for your kid, but everybody's career is completely different in this industry.

Joely Fisher

Actress · American · b. 1967

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Lou Holtz

Coach · American · b. 1937

You can't model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career.

Tyra Banks

Model · American · b. 1973

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

David Prowse

Actor · British · b. 1935

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

Shia LaBeouf

Actor · American · b. 1986

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

Annette Funicello

Actress · American · b. 1942

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Musician · Finnish · b. 1958

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Athlete · American · b. 1956

I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.

Lexa Doig

Actress · Canadian · b. 1973

So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us.

Eydie Gorme

Musician · American · b. 1931

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

Donald Sutherland

Actor · Canadian · b. 1935

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Cate Blanchett

Actress · Australian · b. 1969

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.

Tea Leoni

Actress · b. 1966

When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you.

Nuno Bettencourt

Musician · Portuguese · b. 1966

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

Lisa Bonet

Actress · American · b. 1967

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

Marilyn Monroe

Actress · American · 1926 – 1962

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

Jude Law

Actor · British · b. 1972

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.

Rafael Palmeiro

Athlete · Cuban · b. 1964

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

Randy West

Entertainer · American

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

Damon Hill

Athlete · British · b. 1960

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

Judd Nelson

Actor · American · b. 1959

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.

Ashley Judd

Actress · American · b. 1968

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

Ed Harris

Actor · American · b. 1950

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

Lisa Kudrow

Actress · American · b. 1963

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

Beverley Mitchell

Actress · American · b. 1981

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

Lorna Luft

Actress · American · b. 1952

Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in.

Stephen Collins

Actor · American · b. 1947

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Athlete · American · b. 1956

Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today.

Mark Goddard

Actor · American · b. 1936

I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.

LaToya London

Musician · American · b. 1978

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