Quotes About Career

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

I can tell you that my experience has been that the gentlemen are more likely to come and ask for the order, ask for the raise, ask for the promotion, and that the women are less likely to do so.

When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.

I think a lot of women feel like they have to choose between making movies or making a family.

Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job.

The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

One aspect of my life and career that has helped me be successful is having mentors - having women show me the way. We have to support other women.

School will bring you more success than marriage.

Women have traditionally took secondary roles to men. I want to be the boss not the secretary.

You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes.

I've done a lot of dramedies in my career. You know, I started as a standup comic, and then the movies that I was doing, like 'Up Side of Anger' were kind of like - they're hard. They're hard to sell; they're hard to get made, you know.

I'm in this for the long haul, I want to be doing this until I die. I am a standup comedian. I know a lot of people say I'm not, but I am.

I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.

I did a lot of standup from ages 19 to 24 but then stopped to focus on sketch with Broken Lizard.

I know I'm going to be doing standup for the rest of my life.

A couple of female standup comics I know refer to their kids as their Little Career Killers. I was like, I really do not want to feel that way.

I did a standup show called 'Show Me the Funny,' so from that I got some TV stuff and people would book me for gigs. I wasn't really good enough at that point, so had to catch up with expectations.

I would hate to be a standup comedian for ever. It would not be good. It would be the worst.

I'd been doing standup since college.