"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."

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"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."

Walter Cronkite, American Journalist

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"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."

Charlize Theron, South African Actress

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"I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was."

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"What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark."

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"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."

Mary Chapin Carpenter, American Musician

Career, Freedom, Now, Right

"I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person."

Enya, Irish Musician

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"I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning then when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street."

Jojo Moyes, British Novelist

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"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Career, Pride, Service, Military

"And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series."

Dave Winfield, American Athlete

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"I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career."

Tony Curtis, American Actor

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"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."

"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."

"I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was."

"What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark."

"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."

"I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person."

"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy."

"And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series."

"I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career."

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"In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine."

"Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man."

"But surrealism is present in most of my pictures."

"The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride."

"That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort."

"Designing Woman was written for the screen."