I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by – you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York. – J. K. Simmons
I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that. – Iain Duncan Smith
I’ve always had a loud mouth, and for that I’ve gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in some big competitions in my career, but being counted out and not being seen as a threat is something I’m used to. – Johnny Weir
I’m really glad I didn’t have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can’t do that anymore. – Bob Seger
It was so quick for me on ‘SNL.’ It’s not something I consider to be, like, one of the big spaces in my career. – Jenny Slate
When the ‘Guardian’ is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career… it doesn’t get much nastier than that. And you’ve just got to go, ‘It doesn’t actually matter.’ – James Corden
I’m not really too worried about what I’m gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me. – Ansel Elgort
I don’t really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don’t know what I want to do yet. – Angus T. Jones
The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, ‘I want to go off and do a solo career.’… They come back, and other people come in. – Chris Squire
If everything was good, maybe I wouldn’t have a career. I wouldn’t have anything to make fun of. – Andy Kindler
I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome. – James D. Watson
No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced. – Jack Canfield
When you snatch little pieces of other people’s lives and try to palm them off as your own, that’s more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago. – Joe Rogan
I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career. – Charlie Chaplin
I don’t understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven’t even established a career yet. It’s hard to see past that. I’m not so sure that’s smart in the long run. – Allison Williams
I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn’t lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person. – Beth Ditto
Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case. – Jim Crace
The worst piece of advice I’ve gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, ‘Remember, it’s all about likeability.’ – Clive Owen
I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris. – Irina Shayk
The trick is for Divas to find what works for them. I’ve done some ridiculous stuff in my career, but there’s still nothing that’s gotten a reaction as big as me skipping around the ring. – AJ Lee
My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be. – Bill Dixon
I always liked film as a teaching tool – a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn’t on the list of career options where I grew up. – Brad Pitt
