I just like, when you look at people who have long careers in film, they're able to make films that are far away from themselves, because they're metaphorical. It creates more opportunities, I think.

- Mike Birbiglia

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

- Sheryl Crow

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

- Richard Gere

Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

- Peter Asher

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

- Paul McGann

This is a great time in our lives and careers.

- Nick Lachey

If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.

- Michael Ealy

Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.

- Michael Eklund

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

- Martin Rees

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

- Maria Sharapova

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.

- Andy Murray

I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.

- Mario Lemieux

My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers.

- Leona Lewis

Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.

- Kim Wilde

A lot of folks feel like my brother and me or other politicians chart out their careers from Day 1 until the end. I've never been like that.

- Joaquin Castro

I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.

- Jesse Spencer

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

- John Dos Passos

I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.

- John Lasseter

What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.

- Eddie Redmayne

You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.

- Cynthia Kenyon