Quotes About Career

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.

Like every working mother, there's guilt involved in deciding how you're going to balance family and work.

In 2016, you shouldn't have to choose between succeeding at work and being there for your family.

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none

I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film.

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.

I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.

I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.

Modeling gave me a strong discipline of professionalism where you work very long hours.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.

I just love working. I really enjoy the work, whatever it is.

I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.

It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.