I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.
My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.
Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.
You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.
I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.
I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.
At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.