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This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.

Treat Williams

Actor · American · b. 1951

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

Richard O'Brien

Actor · English · b. 1942

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

Mike McCready

Musician · American · b. 1965

Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.

Mark Ruffalo

Actor · American · b. 1967

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

Placido Domingo

Musician · Spanish · b. 1941

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.

Ray Liotta

Actor · American · b. 1955

I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

Nancy Kerrigan

Athlete · American · b. 1969

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

Ice T

Musician · American · b. 1958

Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.

Cilla Black

Musician · British · b. 1943

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

Joe Morton

Actor · American · b. 1947

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

Deborah Bull

Dancer · British · b. 1963

I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

Bruce Jenner

Athlete · American · b. 1949

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.

Mel Torme

Musician · American · 1925 – 1999

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Actress · American · b. 1972

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

David Friedman

Actor · b. 1973

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

Pat Riley

Coach · American · b. 1945

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

Shirley Knight

Actress · American · b. 1936

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Jane Fonda

Actress · American · b. 1937

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

Gary Sinise

Actor · American · b. 1955

I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.

Kevin Johnson

Athlete · American · b. 1966

I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

Jim Carrey

Comedian · Canadian · b. 1962

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Actress · American · b. 1986

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

Frank Langella

Actor · American · b. 1940

A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

Ryan Phillippe

Actor · American · b. 1974

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

Al Jourgensen

Musician · Cuban · b. 1958

I'm desperate to start a career in music.

Katie Price

Model · english · b. 1978

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

Melissa Auf der Maur

Musician · Canadian · b. 1972

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

Paul Getty

Businessman · American · 1932 – 2003

It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

Pat Morita

Actor · Japanese · 1932 – 2005

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

Sally Kellerman

Actress · American · b. 1937

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

George Takei

Actor · American · b. 1937

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Ben Stiller

Comedian · American · b. 1965

It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.

Pamela Stephenson

Actress · Australian · b. 1949

It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

Joe Rogan

Comedian · American · b. 1967

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

Steve Guttenberg

Actor · American · b. 1958

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

Bill Murray

Actor · American · b. 1950

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

James Gandolfini

Actor · American · b. 1961

I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

Angie Dickinson

Actress · American · b. 1931

At this point, I'm spoiled. I've actually had a really blessed career.

Peter Krause

Actor · American · b. 1965

That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.

Anne McCaffrey

Author · American · b. 1926

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

Charlie Hunnam

Actor · English · b. 1980

You have to take control of your own career.

Maria Menounos

Actress · American · b. 1978

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.

Billie Burke

Actress · American · 1885 – 1970

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

Gary Cole

Actor · American · b. 1956

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

Ted Lindsay

Athlete · Canadian · b. 1925

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.

Dabney Coleman

Actor · American · b. 1932

John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.

Conan O'Brien

Entertainer · American · b. 1963

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

Terence Stamp

Actor · British · b. 1939

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