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

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

I love being in a courtroom.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

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.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

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.

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

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

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

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.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

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

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

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.

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

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

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.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

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

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

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

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.

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.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

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.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

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

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

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.

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 my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

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

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

People have asked me, ‚What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?‘ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.

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.‘

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

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

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

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

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

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