„I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.“

„My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.“

—  Mel Gibson American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter 1956

Excerpted from Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson; Living Dangerously", page 300.

„All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back.“

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Źródło: The Great Gatsby

„I don’t have a job - I have a career. This may sound like semantics, (maybe it is) but to me a job is something you depend on from an employer. It’s theirs to give and theirs to take away... A career is something i have to be responsible for based on my reputation, my ability, and my preferences.“

—  Will Finn American animator 1958

Why You Shouldn’t Want A Job In Animation http://willfinn.blogspot.com/2015/04/why-you-shouldnt-want-job-in-animation.html (April 1, 2015)

„I'm a — I'm a, um, a godmother which is just, that's fun to be a godmother, she is so precious, she's the light of my life, she's two… or five or something, and she's, uh… I don't know, I've never seen her — the pictures are precious, she just seems so, y'know… She lives clear across town, I don't have that kind of time, but, um… Well, I send money and stuff, it's not like I don't have a connection….“

—  Ellen DeGeneres American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress 1958

Taste This

„I don't think my beard is so important that an editorial should be devoted to it. I recently saw in the same newspaper, in an editorial, a comment about Lal Badshah. Of all my films, of the 94 films of my entire career, Lal Badshah should end up in the editorial of The Times of India! I don't think I deserve it. I don't think my film deserves it. And I don't think my beard deserves it.“

—  Amitabh Bachchan Indian actor 1942

„I can't let go of my own vision of Nightmare on Elm Street, I just don't want to, I don't want to see another person play Freddy Kruger. I don't want to see scenes that we worked really hard on be reimagined. I respect their reason for doing it but I don't want to have it in my imagination or my mind. Those memories are so precious to me. I was a teenager when I made that movie so it's so formative. My friendship with Robert Englund is so important to me that I don't need it.“

—  Heather Langenkamp actress 1964

Heather Langenkamp Reveals Why She'll Never Watch 'Nightmare on Elm Street' Remak http://toofab.com/2017/02/27/heather-langenkamp-reveals-why-shell-never-watch-nightmare-on-elm-street-remake-exclusive/ (February 28, 2017)

„I thoroughly believe in the institution of marriage, but there's still a long way to go before I get married. Right now I want to concentrate on my career.“

—  Nedim Jahić Bosnian singer 2001

„Coming to grips with my past, it was hard. I don't feel like what I did was so evil, I just feel like the way I was living, and my mentality, was part of my progression to be a man.“

—  Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
Wariant: I don't feel like what I did was so evil, I just feel like the way I was living and my mentality was a part of my progression to be a man.

„I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?“

—  Adriana Trigiani American film director 1970

Źródło: Viola in Reel Life

„Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room. … With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.“

—  Helena Bonham Carter British actress 1966

Los Angeles Magazine Vol. 44, No. 11 (November 1999), p. 169

„I want to be a Met my whole career.“

—  David Wright American baseball player 1982

[New York Post, http://www.nypost.com/sports/mets/61197.htm, At Home With Mr. Wright, Kernan, Kevin, 2006-01-08, 2006-09-22, http://web.archive.org/web/20060110150417/http://www.nypost.com/sports/mets/61197.htm, 2006-01-10]

„An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas, and the truth of prophecy, has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover, and with the conviction of a geometrician.“

—  Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette French general and politician 1757 - 1834

Letter to the Bailli de Ploën, as quoted in Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette (1835) by Jules Germain Cloquet, Vol. I, p. 24
Kontekst: An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas, and the truth of prophecy, has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover, and with the conviction of a geometrician. On leaving college, where nothing had displeased me more than a state of dependance, I viewed the greatness and the littleness of the court with contempt, the frivolities of society with pity, the minute pedantry of the army with disgust, and oppression of every sort with indignation. The attraction of the American revolution transported me suddenly to my place. I felt myself tranquil only when sailing between the continent whose powers I had braved, and that where, although our arrival and our ultimate success were problematical, I could, at the age of nineteen, take refuge in the alternative of conquering or perishing in the cause to which I had devoted myself.

„My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace, American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to… stomach. Really. In most careers you find something you do well and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package. My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible. That's far more interesting for me.“

—  Tim Curry English actor, voice artist, comedian and singer 1946

Tim Curry Has Another Outlandish Role In 'Shadow' http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1994-07-01/entertainment/9406300178_1_tim-curry-shiwan-khan-shadow (July 1, 1994)

„(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.“

—  Corrie ten Boom Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892 - 1983

Źródło: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

„...And I have seen stranger things in a long and colorful career. Exactly. So what is the problem in believing my story?“

—  Roger Zelazny, książka Roadmarks

“You’ve nothing to back it up with. Even if you’re right, I’m still right in not believing without evidence.”

Chapter 28 (p. 172)
Roadmarks (1979)

„"I knew if I came out, there was a possibility I would lose my career. But I didn't do it for my career, I did it for me to live my truth," she says. "I thought, 'I don't want to live and have any shame whatsoever.' I should be proud of who I am, and I don't care if people approve or not. It is who I am."“

—  Ellen DeGeneres American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress 1958

Ellen Degeneres talking about her coming out in 1997 with Oprah Winfrey, on the interview on 'Oprah' show on 9th of November 2009

„I love Kentwood and all of the people here. They have been so supportive of me and my career.“

—  Taylor Horn American musician and actor 1992

On her gratitude of support from the natives of Kentwood, Louisiana, Horn's hometown.
From her official website http://www.taylorhorn.com/bio

„Let's boogie,' he (Leo) said. 'Before I come to my senses“

—  Rick Riordan, książka The Lost Hero

Źródło: The Lost Hero

„Clash was destined to be my last hero picture, and looking back, the decision to end my career at that point was absolutely right. With all the problems involved in production, and the knowledge that I was losing precious control of solo animation, I was forced to concede that it was time to stand aside for others and their new technology to take over.“

—  Ray Harryhausen American animator 1920 - 2013

Źródło: An Animated Life (2003), pp. 280-2