There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

Football is a contact sport. So, on the pitch, it isn’t possible to maintain distance like you can in an office job.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ‚cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

‚This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!‘ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

‚Via Dolorosa‘ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

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.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.