Quotes About Career

After graduating college, I finally allowed myself to strive for what I loved to do, even if there were no guarantees that I would be able to make a living off of acting. This, combined with my life experiences prior - like stars aligning - led me to this lovely role of Katana within the DC Comics universe.

Maybe I've had a sheltered life and career, but I have so many role models to look up to. It's normal that I would strive to build my own career.

I just think the way Regina King carries herself in this industry is something to strive for. Even though she's been in the business as long as she has, she's still just one of the most genuine, realest people I've met so far. And so watching her, I realize that I don't have to change who I am at the core in order to have a career.

It is something I would like to do, to be a manager, but that's not assuming I will be. It's something that I can strive towards and see where it takes us.

In a normal job, if there was a chance for you to get promoted, are you going to go, 'No, no, no - I want to stay in the exact same spot I'm in now.' Or, are you going to strive and move forward and be better?

A lot of my career and my drive and my passion and my striving to be better and better was built on insecurity.

I was striving to become an engineer, but something happened that made me think, 'Maybe I can make games instead.'

I've watched Spike Lee's career with interest, and he seemed to be striving for an original and moral point of view.

I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.

The people on programmes like 'Made in Chelsea' just want to be celebrities. It's so depressing. No proper actor has that as a goal. I'm striving for longevity in my career.

My father - a Lebanese-origin small businessman - had a stroke in 1997 and couldn't work anymore. I paused my career and made sure he was taken care of by overseeing the sale of his businesses, but after that, I was able to dedicate myself to politics. It's what I had always wanted.

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

I consider it a stroke of luck that I got to work with one of my favourite directors, Mani Ratnam.

I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my friends were doing the good shows, like 'Cheers,' but I loved it because I got to be a working writer in Hollywood.

I was getting offers when I was in Bollywood, but was waiting for a strong character.

I have a strong sense of myself. That gives me a sense of security, you know? If I define myself by things that are always changing, like the public's opinion, or what I'm wearing, or what job I'm doing, there's no stability in that.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

You can still have a very strong sense of who you are and be successful in this industry.

As a contemporary Indian woman who has been handling so many things, I think she can be a very strong woman, a very strong working woman. We need more and more working women in our country.

Kate Winslet is incredible. She's so lovely and so flexible, and she's got three kids, and she's flying internationally to work. It's amazing to see strong women doing what they want to do and doing it well.

I was never a glamour puss whose career was really based on a look or an attitude. I've been basically playing the same parts I am at 55 that I was at 35. I get cast as strong women, and that can be a mother or a judge or anything.

We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

I have always received roles of strong women from the beginning.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.