I covered Katrina, I’ve covered the tsunamis, all of them, the Haiti earthquake… you get to a certain point in your career where you say, ‘I want to now cover what I want to cover.’ – Soledad O’Brien
I never played the ‘decoration,’ I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women. – Tyne Daly
I first started doing some somewhat technology-based shows in the ’80s. If you wanted to get real technical about it, back in the ’70s I used to open up with Utopia with just me on the stage with a four-track tape recorder. So, technically, I’ve been using the help of various devices pretty much throughout my career. – Todd Rundgren
People often write after they finish their career, or they don’t play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let’s do it differently. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea Goes to Jail!’ Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I’ve ever done in my career, that’s the only thing that’s perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that’s done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes! – Viola Davis
When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth. – Steve Coogan
When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy. – Tamron Hall
My own career started in New York at the ‘Associated Press’, a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting. – Tom Rachman
Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do. – Sandra Lee
Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me. – Vikram Chatwal
Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I’ve always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation. – Susan Vreeland
I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory, and I knew I had to do something remarkable. – Stacey Snider
I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person. – Sonja Sohn