Careers Quotes - Page 31

• At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

  Donald Pleasence

  Hopeless, Horror, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.

  Nicole Polizzi

  People, Giving, Negativity

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• The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

  Kevin Powers

  Uncles, Father, Military

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• I miss my singing career very much.

  Elvis Presley

  Missing, Singing, Singing Career

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• It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.

  Priscilla Presley

  Song, Tired, Dark

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• My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

  Dennis Quaid

  Baseball, Real, League

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• Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.

  Dennis Quaid

  Bills, Clinton

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• I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.

  Dennis Quaid

  Character, Choices, Trying

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• I was a guy back in the Eighties who was one movie away from a huge career, which at that time didn't happen. In the Nineties, I worked a lot, but it was kind of, 'Get out there and dig and find things.' Then I guess 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven' were referred to as my comeback.

  Dennis Quaid

  Guy, Heaven, Rookies

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• I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

  Dan Quayle

  Believe, Politics, Public Service

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• I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Jobs, Acting, Examination

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• I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Fans, Different, Done

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• I definitely think that theatre is something I'll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre's something you have to be very fit to do. I am fairly fit, but I don't think I could do it all the time.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Long, Theatre

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• I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Not Good Enough, Looks, Certain

  "Daniel Radcliffe: 'My drive is to prove I'm not a one-trick pony'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. June 02, 2013.

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• If I can make a career for myself after Harry Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Children, Bed, Potters

  "Harry Potter fans prepare for life after Deathly Hallows" by Henry Barnes, www.theguardian.com. July 06, 2011.

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• Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Taken, Directors, Lucky

  "Daniel Radcliffe On Ditching Harry And Becoming A Man". Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

  Lou Reed

  New York, Writing, Way

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• You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

  Keanu Reeves

  Character, Play, Interesting

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• Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

  John C. Reilly

  Keys, People, Longevity

  "John C. Reilly: Confessions of a scene-stealer" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

  Jason Reitman

  Son, Thinking, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'what's your advice?' first I say, 'be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

  Jason Reitman

  Son, Advice, Directors

  "INTERVIEW: Jason Reitman Made Unmakeable Young Adult for $12 Million". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2011.

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• I think that's the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, Taste, Personal Taste

  "IGN Interviews Christina Ricci". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. January 7, 2004.

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• I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

  Sally Ride

  Long, Tennis, Term

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• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

  Pat Riley

  Life, Travel, Ambition

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• I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

  Rick Riordan

  Writing, Ideas, Novelists

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