Career Quotes About Growth & Direction – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

Ronnie Barker

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

Sam Waterston

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know.

Brendan Fraser

Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

Brian Setzer

I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby.

Dick Trickle

The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.

Penelope Cruz

I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.

Larry Norman

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

Mia Farrow

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

Paul D. Boyer

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

Lara Flynn Boyle

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

Chuck Daly

I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do.

Rose McGowan

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

Thom Yorke

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.

Michael Bolton

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Tony Curtis

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

Taylor Dayne

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

Beverly Sills

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

Joan Chen

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

Shawn Ashmore

"10" was amazing! I had no career before "10" and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

Bo Derek

Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.

Brett Favre

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.

Peter Garrett

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.

Christine Baranski

It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

Rachel Griffiths

I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

Natasha Henstridge

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

Catherine McCormack

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

Lindsay Lohan

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Michelle Shocked

I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.

Otis Blackwell

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

Jimmy Carl Black

I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.

Thomas Dooley

Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.

Paul Taylor

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.

Michael Graves

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

Marilyn Horne

Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.

Cesar Romero

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

Mother Jones

I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.

Sharon Stone

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

Mira Sorvino

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

Buck Henry

I never pursued a career relentlessly.

Armand Assante

I drank beer, and I had a career year.

David Wells

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

Josh Charles

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

Dan Abrams

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Hank Aaron

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.

Geri Halliwell

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

Alberto Juantorena

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

Tony Curtis