Career quotes

“I got scars from every film I've done, every TV show.”
Chadwick Boseman

“My professional charges are upon a fixed scale. I do not vary them, except when I remit them altogether.”
Peter Cushing - Sherlock Holmes

“I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.”
Scoot McNairy

“You borrow from the greats, and you make your own path without losing the core of who you are.”
Micheal B. Jordan

“My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.”
Jean Simmons

“If I have a career in theater, and nobody knows who I am, I'm all right with that.”
Lucas Hedges

“My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.”
Zachary Levi

“How did he start you? Hunting birds, rabbit? I'm guessing nineteen, twenty years-old, the first time he ordered you to shoot a person.”

Will Smith - Henry Brogan

“You know, I never paid much attention to who was the lead, who was the second banana, where was I -- was I the fifth banana? -- whatever. I had a zest for life. And I was rather impractical about my career. I was never career oriented. I was more life oriented. So I didn't really care about billing and stuff.”
Bo Svenson

“Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.”
Michael Eklund

I loved "Chasing Amy". I hated the fact that I wasn't in it. It's a love/hate thing.
Jeff Anderson

“There are a lot of things I would have done differently, but Scully wouldn't have been one of them.”
Gillian Anderson

“There are three stages in an actor's career: Who is John Amos? Get me John Amos. Get me a young John Amos.”
John Amos

“I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.”
Eddie Albert

“To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.”
Peter Falk

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

“I was told to take a man to a hotel. They said that he was an enemy of the state and in exchange my mother would get the doctor she needed. Instead they cut his throat. He died on top of me. There could be no witnesses, so my uncle gave me a choice, die or become a Sparrow.”
Jennifer Lawrence - Dominika Egorova

“- Sue O'Malley: What are you majoring in?
- Joel: Russian literature and Slavic languages.
- Sue O'Malley: Oh wow, that's pretty interesting. What career track is that?
- Joel: Cabby, hot dog vendor, marijuana delivery guy. The world is my oyster.”
Paige Howard - Sue O'Malley
Martin Starr - Joel

“- Jenny Lerner: I want exclusivity.
- President Beck: Now listen, young lady. This is a presidential favour. I'm letting you go because I don't want another headache. And I'm trusting you because I know what this can do for your career. Now, it may seem like we have each other over the same barrel but it just seems that way.”

Téa Leoni - Jenny Lerner
Morgan Freeman - President Beck

“- Nick and Billy's Boss: You two were great salesmen. The best! But at the end of the day, you're grinders. Foot soldiers. We all know you'll never be generals. And I'm gonna say something harsh right now.
- Billy McMahon: Now you're gonna say something harsh?
- Nick and Billy's Boss: Strap it in, boys, 'cause it ain't pretty out there. And you...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Goodman - Nick and Billy's Boss
Vince Vaughn - Billy McMahon

“I'm not drawn to the old neighborhood, my life never revolved around the old neighborhood, I don't give a fuck about the old neighborhood. I'm from wherever I happen to be, and these days that's Nashville, Tennessee. Just me, my beautiful wife and a good cigar. Quiet, and peaceful in the knowledge that none of this could have happened without me.”
Erich Bergen - Bob Gaudio

“I was lucky, you know. I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good.”

Bob Hope

“When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook, and start the whole thing over again.”

Preston Sturges

“People ask me 'how come you been around so long?' Well, it's through playing the part of Mr. Average Joe American.”
Gary Cooper

“If you can't make a career out of two de Milles, you'll never do it.”
Charlton Heston On Cecil Blount DeMille