Career Obstacle Quotes

You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.

Being a successful Hollywood actress may be challenging, but little did I know that the very body that had always been my calling card would betray me.

Preki quite literally only has the one foot

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

I kind of always wanted to act, but to get a grant I would have needed two A-levels, and I was too far away from even O levels. I didn't know you could get a scholarship, so I determined early not to pursue that.

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.

My career got sidetracked after fighting Holmes.

I struggled for so long to try to create a career.

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.

When I graduated from law-school, there was not a single law firm in the entire City of New York that would hire me.

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

From the age of 40, I went through illness for four and a half years. I tried to keep working through it as much as I could, but I was physically not able to do it as much, and if you look sick, it's hard to get a job.

I would like to be an actress in Hollywood and win an Oscar. The only difference is my height.

Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.

My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.

You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.

I would have become a pilot if it wasn't for my poor eyesight and the fact that I am hopeless in science.

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

Honestly, the biggest setback to my music career was people's perception that I was a reality TV star, not a rapper.

It's a hindrance in trying to get a serious acting role. The minute a producer has a script and my name comes up, they immediately think of 'Playboy,' 'Hee Haw,' 'Fantasy Island' and 'Love Boat.'

By high school, I had traded my oversized, thick glasses for contact lenses, but my eyesight was getting worse every year, smothering my childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut or, at least, a pilot.