Quotes About Career

Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.

Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.

I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn't ringing. There wasn't one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn't work in Hollywood again.

I'm aware of how difficult it is to work and be a mom - I have an 11-year-old son - and I would love to help anyone else who is trying to get into the field.

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

The only work I ever turned down was a cable programme called Diving for Excrement.

Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell.

When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with.

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?

I like the work that I get to do.

I've reached a certain age where I love to work. I could just live here [at the studio].

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

Meditate. Inspire others. Spend time by yourself. Manage your career properly. Work at something constructive, that doesn't injure others, and put your full attention into it.

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.