Quotes About Career

Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals and now I get to do both.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

I've always wanted to go where the work was or where I was wanted. The idea that it can be planned is one I let go of a long time ago.

My schedule, it always looks like it's really steady, but believe it or not, I tend to work a bunch and then take a year off.

I pretty much work all the time.

I absolutely love Vancouver! One, because the city is beautiful and very easily walkable, and two, because the city keeps giving me work!

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

I'm not married and I don't have kids, and so I like to go to work.

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

There are some people who are very powerful who I will never name, because I want to be able to work in this town.

I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.

The most lucrative work I have done is presenting primetime TV shows. I do not know what other people earn but a six-figure salary is not uncommon.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

I don't have to be a "gazillionaire;" what's important to me is to just being able to work.

There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.

I love to work. I love doing standup.

I really hope that I get to work with Chris [Nolan] some day.

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.