I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.
Jayne Mansfield is making a career of being a girl.
Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain. ' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.
A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
I’ve come to believe that connecting is one of the most important business—and life—skill sets you’ll ever learn. Why? Because, flat out, people do business with people they know and like. Careers—in every imaginable field—work the same
I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.
I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].
I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.
All I'm doing now is extra. I've already did what I am going to do in my career.
Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.
And lastly, when other things in life get tough, when you're going through family troubles, when you're heartbroken, when you're frustrated with money problems, focus on your work. It has saved me through every single difficult thing I have ever had to do, like a scaffolding that goes far beyond any traditional notions of a career.
My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People who know what they are doing know the rules, and know what is possible and impossible. You do not. And you should not. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can. If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
I am being embezzled from by this monstrous ring of accountants and estate planners and lawyers, who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.