Quotes about Career

I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.

What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

Not everybody is going to agree with your dream. I'm sure you've had border bullies in your life as you moved into your career. And what we don't want to do is focus upon them.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

I don't judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It's a fun career deal, but it's not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game.

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.