Professional Life Quotes

I don't discuss my career with my husband.

Work was always a part of my life.

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like 'You said this back then!'

We're professional athletes, and we have moments where we step back, and we have to think and assess everything in life.

It was repugnant to my convictions and my experience so far to encroach upon the independence of the worker, in his professional life and his rights as the head of a family, as to forbid him by law to exploit his own working capacities, and those of his family, according to his own judgment. I do not believe that the workingman is in himself grateful because he is forbidden to earn money on certain days, and during certain hours, as he may choose.

Here it may be convenient ... to say something of recreation and home life. Both are sadly curtailed by office.

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

For me, I just focus on playing, playing at a high level. And when you can't do that any longer, you've got to get off the train.

I'm more interested in talking about what I do. And I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker. But it's true: If you know something about a person outside of the movie that is really repulsive to you, it's hard to shake. So I prefer to do my speaking through the work. I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through these characters. The other stuff is personal and too easy to trivialize out of context.

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic.

Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life.

Any woman in any career has to think about when they have children, if they want to have children, and how it's going to affect their career.

In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

There was a previous generation of women who rose through the ranks in an environment when work and life were highly compartmentalized. And I think now, because of technology, we're always on. Where there used to be work life and home life, now it's one life. And I think a lot of companies don't recognize that.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas.

It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.

The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.

I've been on hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of auditions in my life, so it's not unusual that I went in for 'Glee.' What was unusual is that it was a week, exactly, after I had given birth.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness, so I get it.

I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.