A Quote by Melanie Griffith

Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40. — © Melanie Griffith
Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40.

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I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.
Every interview I've done since I've turned 40, the journalist will say, 'So, isn't it amazing? Your career should be over, but you're still working. Why do you think you have found a career at a time when a lot of women are slowing down?'
I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
It ain't over at 40. I haven't crested the best part of my career.
If you can sustain a career over 40 years in this business, you've gotta consider yourself lucky.
My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.
[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.
One of the reasons I'm so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated that to a film.
My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.
When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.
People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.
It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and downs.
After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.
On-camera stuff just hit. I decided to do it to supplement my voice-over career, but I ended up falling in love with it, and it actually hit a lot harder than my voice-over career.
Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalizingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a shadow career, the consequences are meaningless to us. Are you pursuing a shadow career?
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