Work & Career: Career Quotes

"After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star"

Ally Sheedy, Actress

"I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next"

Famke Janssen, Actress

"I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career"

Angie Dickinson, Actress

"We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame!"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do"

Benicio Del Toro, Actor

"I mean, they're threatening - my career is over. You know, everything I've worked so hard. I've worked extremely hard since about 17 years old, you know, as a White House intern on up"

Andrea Mackris, Producer

"Naturally enough, when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do"

Anna Neagle, Actress

"If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here"

Ben E. King, Musician

"I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film"

Michelle Williams, Actress

"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done"

Judi Dench, Actress

"I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again"

Judi Dench, Actress

"Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own"

Laura Bush, First Lady

"I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum"

Boyd Rice, Artist

"In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"When you are a beginning film maker, you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture"

George Lucas, Director

"Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them"

George Lucas, Director

"I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest"

Sextus Propertius, Poet

"Another occupation might have been better"

F. H. Bradley, Philosopher

"I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon"

Kato Kaelin, Celebrity

"I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial"

Kato Kaelin, Celebrity

"I don’t even know if I want to share this with you because it’s quite intimate, but as an actor, you sort of live at a dining room table in your head, and you have about 30 personalities at the table, and you’re trying to attend to them, without going crazy"

Timothée Chalamet, Actor

"A lot of people want to be told what to say, how to say it and where to stand , I’m talking on the acting front. Also, people don’t want to misstep"

Timothée Chalamet, Actor

"The experience of getting famous the way I did and the rocket ship of it was destabilizing"

Timothée Chalamet, Actor

"Your job is what they pay you to do. Your work is what you were born to do. Never confuse your job with your work"

Myles Munroe, Author

"Modelling is a silly, crazy business"

Helena Christensen, Model

"It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight"

Helena Christensen, Model

"Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles"

Rona Barrett, Journalist

"I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York"

Karen Allen, Actress

"I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging"

Aishwarya Rai, Actress

"We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves"

Thurston Moore, Musician

"I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s"

Lee Majors, Actor

"Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent"

Lee Majors, Actor

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