"A career in the theatre demands so much commitment."
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"I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak."
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"When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you."
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"I'd just thank the people out there who have been with my up-and-down, weird-road, strange career and supported me and stuck with me all these years. I mean, they're my boss. That's what keeps me working."
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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."
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"In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that."
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"Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus."
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"During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began."
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"Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center."
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"I suppose there are a lot of people who'd kill to have my career, but I still feel like a fan."
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"Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers"
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"If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all."
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"Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it."
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"The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live."
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"I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable."
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"I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive."
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"In order to have a lasting career you'll need to spend time performing live to build your own audience, as it's not all about social media. Word of mouth still rules."
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"I want to avoid becoming too styled, too ‘done’ and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost."
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"If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here."
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"Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do."
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