Work & Career: Career Quotes

"Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"By that time, I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD"

Paul Berg, Scientist

"I had a 20-year, stellar government career"

Linda Tripp, Celebrity

"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, Musician

"You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"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, Musician

"I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that"

Catherine Bell, Model

"Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession"

Russell Crowe, Actor

"If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out"

Roberta Williams, Designer

"You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing"

Van Morrison, Musician

"I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations"

John Perkins, Economist

"I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the International Jugglers Competition Junior Division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler"

Patrick Dempsey, Actor

"After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking, so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with"

Erik Qualman, Author

"They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do, and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"I haven't strength of mind, not to need a career"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well"

Juliette Lewis, Actress

"I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them"

Mercedes Ruehl, Actress

"I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it, and I want people to know that I am serious"

LL Cool J, Musician

"I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s, when I was growing up, I wanted to be a crusader like him, but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute"

David Guterson, Author

"I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"I was always in show business, but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"I wanted to be a radio announcer"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"In 1930, I became a member of the Reichstag"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business"

Faith Ford, Actress

"So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"I was very productive as a senator for my state"

Carol Moseley Braun, Politician

"It was always part of the plan to move into acting"

Aaliyah, Musician

"When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher"

Dean Koontz, Author

"People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment"

Claudia Black, Actress

"Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach"

Aaliyah, Musician

"What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all"

Greta Scacchi, Actress

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