Quotes About Career

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.

There is no doubt in my mind that I was going to do what my father did, but it wasn't kind of a family-business thing.

There's no doubt in my mind I'll finish my career with the Bears. However that works out, it works out. I can't imagine playing anywhere else.

If I were to return to Japan, Nippon Ham would be my top choice. No doubt about that.

Listen, I'm extremely lucky. I can't complain at all. I've had a very good go at it. But there is no doubt that as a woman it gets harder as you get older. I don't think it's so hard for men - that's the same in a lot of industries.

I first became a showrunner at 36 years old. I had no experience doing this job, which is as complicated and multi-faceted as anything I'd ever tried.

But when you look at some of the other guys who have started with their careers in management, they all started with no experience. You have got to start somewhere.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

No future employer is going to comb your college transcript to see how you fared in Microeconomics 300. In fact, you won't even be asked about where you went to school after your first entry level job.

For one thing, there is no guarantee that I am even going to work again. I hope I will and will go on to have a long career.

If your first film does badly, there's no guarantee of the second film.

When I was young, I wanted to be an actress. I had no idea what that meant, but I just thought it sounded fun.

When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.

I knew I would work in a community that I would like to live in, but I had no idea that I would ever go into politics, even though some of my classmates thought I would.

Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver.

I had no idea what modeling entailed and what an agency was. It was crazy. As I continued to do it, it was fun for me to learn everything from A to Z.

I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.

There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

Americans believe if you go to college, you have something to fall back on, which makes sense. I don't have any degrees. If I hadn't become a golfer, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life.