Career Drive Quotes

A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.'

My grandmother told me that to be in fashion, one must be young and passionate about the work. At this moment, every aspect of my life is permeated by fashion - everything has a reference to my job.

Even after I got started in TV and the movies, I didn't sit around waiting on parts. I kept busy.

Since I was 9 years old, I have been working, hustling to find my own projects - from telenovelas to record deals, etc. etc. Way before I met my husband.

I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said I had to do. It was what I wanted to do. I think I was very interested in being away from them as much as possible. Employment was great for that.

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!

I'm a greedy actor, craving for exciting parts to play.

I love working. I'm a workaholic and I'm really privileged for some of the jobs I get offered and so I just want to keep going.

All I'd ever wanted to do in my life was write and publish books, and woe to anyone who stood in my way.

Arsenal is a team who challenge for the top and definitely match my ambitions and personal motivation.

I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.

I think I have a lot of ambition when it comes to acting.

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

To lose my mother just as I'm right on the brink of crossing that threshold over into a career, it was pretty compelling. My entire career is my mother's work, for me.

I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.

In World War Two, in the OSS, we knew what our motivation was: to beat the goddamn Nazis. In the Cold War, we knew what our motivation was: to beat the Goddamn Russians. Suddenly the Cold War is over, and what is the motivation? What would compel someone to spend their lives doing this kind of thing?

I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

My whole career has been an act of revenge.

My mom always tells me, 'You need to take a week for yourself and just chill,' but I don't, man. If you want to be successful, I don't think you should take a day off.

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.

I graduated high school, and I always wanted to go to college, but I also really wanted to work at a young age. At 18, I was pitching talk show ideas to different networks. I was a journalist.

I gots to make the dough to support myself and my disabled moms. God bless her soul. I live to bleed for that woman. I want to go as far as my power will take me.