Career quotes

“I came to America to become an architect.”
Mako

“I did the best I could with the tools I had and the opportunities given me. My life was screwed up early by getting pregnant at 15 and married, then a baby at 16, then divorced at 17. But in spite of that start, I've done all right.”
Stella Stevens

“If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.”
James Stewart

“Prior to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - the first one in 2003 - I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I'm saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.”
Johnny Depp

“- Evelyn Carnahan: Have you no respect for the dead?
- Jonathan Carnahan: Of course I do. But sometimes... I'd rather like to join them.
- Evelyn Carnahan: Well, I wish you would do it sooner rather than later before you ruin my career the way you've ruined yours.”
Rachel Weisz - Evelyn Carnahan
John Hannah - Jonathan Carnahan

“I don't believe in careers. I believe in work.”
Debra Winger

“Years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.”
Rufus Sewell

“Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.”
Dermot Mulroney

“When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.”
Maggie Smith

“I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.”
Jennifer Coolidge

“You know as well as I do, that plenty of people playing this game, they don't think that way. They're willing to sell their souls, crawl through sewers, lie to people, divide them, play on their worst fears for nothing! Just for the prize.”

John Travolta - Governor Jack Stanton

“There we were, both of us... at the beginning of our careers. Then all of a sudden, one of us... took off! Lit up the sky like a meteor. And why? Because he met the other.”

John Lithgow - Earl Talbot Blake

“My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.”
Roddy McDowall

“Thirty-two teams, seven rounds, 224 young men who, today, are about to become players in the National Football League. A day where lives are changed, fates are decided, dynasties are born, and the clock is always ticking. Of course, I'm talking about... Draft Day.”
Chris Berman - Himself

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

“I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.'”
Gael García Bernal

“I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.”
Holland Taylor

“There comes a moment in every performer’s life that defines him or her, sometimes for the rest of their career.”
Matthew Morrison - Will Schuester

“Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.”
Timothy Dalton

“When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.”
Olivia Wilde

“Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.”
Donald Glover

“The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.”
Brian Dennehy

“- Feathers: How does a... how does a man get to be a sheriff?
- John T. Chance: Gets lazy. Gets tired of selling his gun all over. Decides to sell it in one place.
- Feathers: I'd say you made a poor sale.
- John T. Chance: A lot of people around here'll agree with you.
- Feathers: But... it's still a sale and it's too late to back out.”
Angie Dickinson - Feathers
John Wayne - Sheriff John T. Chance

“I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.”
Leslie Caron

“I swear to God, my career is like this weird origami thing.”
Jimmi Simpson