Career quotes

“I was fortunate to be born with a set of characteristics that were in the public vogue.”
Katharine Hepburn

“I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.”
Jack Lemmon

“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

“It was a huge success and I got an Oscar for it, though I don’t think it made an enormous difference in my career.”

Alec Guinness

“I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“I've already received an Academy Award and I made a lot of money for the studios and enough for me too. I want to try television because I can control the product.”

Loretta Young

“The most important development for a girl ambitious for a screen career, is development of the mind. She should be interested in music. She should read fine books, learn to dance, and possibly study for one of the sciences.”
Jean Harlow

“I was not, shall we say, a go-getter. I guess I was sort of a bum.”

Henry Fonda

“Look, Pete, the 60s are over. All that peace and love and freedom stuff, yeah it was great for picking up chicks, but it's not gonna help my career. To do that, I gotta make test scores go up. And to make test scores go up, I gotta keep kids in class where they belong.”
James Woods - Dr. Philliam "Phil" Benedict

When I hear an actress say, "You know what, I'm gonna have my face done, get my tits raised, and I'm going to get another ten years out of this business", I say, "More power to you. Go do it".
Michelle Pfeiffer

“I learned to act on the big screen. I was never a spear carrier. I was always the star. Always.”
Rob Lowe

“I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.”
Leo McKern

“- Andy Schmidt: I'm onto some very big things. Josh Logan called me up. Kazan likes me very much. It's all doing to happen in a matter of days.
- Milton Miller: My career is in the shithouse, too.”
Henry Winkler - Andy Schmidt
Hervé Villechaize - Milton Miller

“Here is the story of my career... here is the story, of my career... my brilliant career. I make no apology for being egotistical... because I am!”
Judy Davis - Sybylla Melvyn

“The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.”
Holly Hunter

“I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.”
Anthony LaPaglia

“Well, it is certainly not by choice at this time you don't see or hear about me. This business is very unpredictable. A lot of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time.”
Erin Moran

“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

“- Effie Schneider (Nancy Drew's maid): I didn't know you wanted to be a lawyer.
- Nancy Drew: Oh yes, I think every intelligent woman should have a career.”
Renie Riano - Effie Schneider (Nancy Drew's maid)
Bonita Granville - Nancy Drew

“When I started out I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.”
Katharine Hepburn

“Strange that over the course of my career I have played perhaps more doctors than any other profession while having very little first hand experience with them”
Erick Avari

“Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously.”
Milla Jovovich

“At summer's end, I plan on moving to New York where I'll pursue a career as a serious actress. It's my goal to entertain the world through artistic expression. Through art, I shall serve my country.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar - Helen Shivers

You must choose between an operatic career and what is usually called "a normal life". You can't do justice to both.
Frank Puglia - Villeneuve