Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.
I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.
Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.
You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet
I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.
Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.
Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.
A single girlfriend can play an important role in success of your career but a bunch of girlfriends can seriously ruins your successful life.
The cultural wars of the sixties are over. I've reconciled with those who were my critics and opponents years ago. I was at odds with some those who were Black nationalists. Yet when feminists attempted to end my career and leave me as literary road kill, it was the Black nationalists who came to my rescue.
One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.
I started making movies in my late 20s, that time in an artist's career that often sees artists just imitating things that he or she loves. I just wanted to be great like L'Age d'Or vintage Buñuel. I wanted to be Busby Berkeley, for crying out loud! I wanted to have chorus girls stomping their heels in my casting office. I wanted to be Erich Von Stroheim monogramming underwear for extras. So I started off my career doing that, and that was fun, but I realised I wasn't very good at it.
I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.
I look at the Chrissy Teigens of the world, who I absolutely love, and I wish that I could say some of the stuff that she says. But I know where I want to go in my career path and I know that there are some things I can't say.
I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long. I dropped out of Yale after two years to pursue one of the most uncertain careers - modeling. That seemed like a crazy decision, especially coming from where I came from and given what Yale is. Most people I knew told me so. But I was following what my heart was telling me I needed to do. I took the risk. It could easily have not worked out, but it did. Phew!
I knew, despite playing in the NBA, that I would have to prepare for another career or vocation for when my playing days were over, in order to maintain relevancy. I didn't want to become known for what I used to do.
The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.
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