Quotes About Career

I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.'

If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.

I had a lot of college debt. It's very difficult to go to a university that is as expensive as Stanford and then blindly follow your passions when they don't immediately make money out of the gate.

I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.

After I finished university, I was gigging as a comedian in London as well as temping for Morgan Stanley during the day.

My first job after drama school was with Stanley Kubrick. It was only a few lines in 'A Clockwork Orange', but I was working with a master of cinema.

Coming from Montreal, Patrick Roy was the guy that everybody looked up to. He was consistent and successful early in his career; he won the Stanley Cup when he was really young and he played with a great organization. For me it was also a French thing, like one of us had made it that big in the NHL, and you tried to follow in his footsteps.

I never grew up on a staple diet of Hindi cinema. In fact, when I was a VJ, I was averse to it. Purely because I could never imagine myself being an actor.

Before, models had that rock star life and it was all about going to the parties and having that glamorous life, and I think these days, models are more like businesswomen and the whole industry takes it really serious.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

In my mind, I was never going to have the things I wanted if I played music for a living, unless I became a rock star.

I'm not a pop star.

I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.

You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor.

I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

I'm glad that I didn't get a part in 'Scream 2' and become a star in 1995.

I don't see myself being perceived as a Bollywood star and I wouldn't want to be that either.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

I know I want to work for my whole life because I know I can't live without music or dancing. But I don't know if I want to be a big star.

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.