Careers Quotes - Page 34

• An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Interesting, Long, Want

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• Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

  Paul Stanley

  Kissing, Band, Kiss Me

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• This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, Integrity, Offering

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• I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

  Kristen Stewart

  Funny, Movie, School

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• Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.

  Rod Stewart

  Tomorrow, Ends, Complaints

  "Rod Stewart: 'I've been one lucky guy'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2009.

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• I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.

  Rod Stewart

  Band, Solo

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

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• I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

  Rod Stewart

  Knowing, Secret, Want

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• The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

  Ben Stiller

  Writing, Guy, Acting

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• I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

  Emma Stone

  Night, Thinking, Fey

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• Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Entertainment, Middle, Contracts

  "JMS Gives New BEFORE WATCHMEN Details, Defends Project". Interview with Vaneta Rogers, www.newsarama.com. March 17, 2012.

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• I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

  George Strait

  Hard Times, Long, Sometimes

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• Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.

  Alison Sweeney

  Mind, Age, Looks

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• As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

  Taylor Swift

  Lists, Make You Happy, Should

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• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  Taylor Swift

  Years, Choices, Important

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• I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.

  Taylor Swift

  Girlfriend, Men, Guy

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• When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

  Taylor Swift

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Taylor Swift Maps Out Film Career". Interview with Ruben V. Nepales, entertainment.inquirer.net. April 01, 2012.

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• When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

  Taylor Swift

  Passion, Doe, Looks

  "Taylor Swift Talks". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Fashion, Antonio, Illustrators

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• Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.

  Paul Taylor

  Goal, Want, Solo

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• If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

  Tim Tebow

  Football, Believe, Player

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• Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

  Charlize Theron

  Talking

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• I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

  Charlize Theron

  Movie, Independent, Actors

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• At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

  Charlize Theron

  Interesting, Different, Way

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• So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

  Charlize Theron

  Play, Long, Littles

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• And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

  Charlize Theron

  Jeans, People, Trying

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