Quotes About Career

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

I understand professionals have to work when they don't feel like it, and I certainly don't feel like it. So maybe this will put the nail in the coffin for my acting career.

There's not a single job in this town. There's nothin', nada, zip. Unless you wanna workforty hours a week.

All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see em go here, I see em go there - but I just do my work.

I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.

A career is a job that has gone on too long.

I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV.

I have this internal battle between, I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids. And the kids win.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

I'm a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am.

TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

When you're not the lead on a series, you work intermittently, even if you're in every episode.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.