2,702 Quotes About Careers

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

An understandable hunger for ... potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, ... immune to the methods of factory farming.

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.