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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
Rafael Palmeiro
Athlete · Cuban · b. 1964
Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
Cameron Diaz
Actress · b. 1972
I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.
Lee Hazlewood
Musician · American · 1929 – 2007
In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.
Bill Paxton
Actor · American · b. 1955
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
John L. Phillips
Astronaut · American · b. 1951
I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
Ben Stiller
Comedian · American · b. 1965
We expected to have a good time with Clive Davis 'cause I've always liked him, his shows. I've sort of followed his career a bit 'cause he had a lot of that on PBS over here.
Maurice Gibb
Musician · Australian · 1949 – 2003
The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.
Marion Jones
Athlete · American · b. 1975
Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.
Richard Harris
Actor · Irish · 1930 – 2002
You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.
For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career.
Kyan Douglas
Celebrity · American · b. 1970
I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.
Suzanne Farrell
Dancer · American · b. 1945
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
Louise Brooks
Actress · American · 1906 – 1985
And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
Victoria de los Angeles
Musician · Spanish · 1923 – 2005
The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.
Ken Hensley
Musician · English · b. 1945
I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
Karolina Kurkova
Model · Czechoslovakian · b. 1984
It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.
Alex Winter
Actor · American · b. 1965
People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.
Marcel Dionne
Athlete · Canadian · b. 1951
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
Sally Kellerman
Actress · American · b. 1937
Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
Alex Cox
Director · British · b. 1954
I miss my singing career very much.
Elvis Presley
Musician · American · 1935 – 1977
I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
Frances McDormand
Actress · American · b. 1957
There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Actor · American · b. 1967
It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.
Guy Lafleur
Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
Randy Harrison
Actor · American · b. 1977
Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.
LaToya London
Musician · American · b. 1978
I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.
Kristin Davis
Actress · American · b. 1965
Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.
Ridley Scott
Director · British · b. 1937
The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.
Rob Lowe
Actor · American · b. 1964
People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
Gary Oldman
Actor · English · b. 1958
People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.
Tyra Banks
Model · American · b. 1973
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser
Celebrity · American · b. 1934
If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.
Donnie Wahlberg
Actor · American · b. 1969
When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.
Julio Iglesias
Musician · American · b. 1943
One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career.
Eric Heiden
Athlete · American · b. 1958
It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.
Joel McHale
Comedian · American · b. 1971
I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
Ralph Fiennes
Actor · British · b. 1962
I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.
Alanis Morissette
Musician · Canadian · b. 1974
After all, didn't I blow a magnificent career?
Dick York
Actor · American · 1928 – 1992
Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.
Jim McKay
Journalist · American · b. 1921
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
Mercedes McCambridge
Actress · American · 1916 – 2004
I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.
David Cassidy
Actor · American · b. 1950
I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.
Carole King
Musician · American · b. 1942
Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.
Donna Rice
Celebrity · American · b. 1958
We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
Jack Black
You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.
Gerry Cooney
Athlete · American · b. 1956