Quotes About Career

Chicago's where I started my career. I've had a lot of success playing here.

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

My mother is a teacher, and my father is a chief marine engineer.

I was a child actor but not a child star.

After working in a number of films as a child actor, I took a break so that people could forget me as a child actor and relate to me as a hero.

We have seen many child actors who have gone astray. They were particular that 'Zakhm' was going to be my last film as a child actor and after that I took a six year break for education.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

I feel scared of putting on weight or having a double chin as that might stop getting me work.

I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.

You can't play not to lose. You kind of have to put your ego aside and accept the fact that careers are long, and there's gonna be stuff people like and stuff that people don't like, and you try to get better every time, and always put something out that you're proud of. And let the chips fall where they may.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice.

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.

I don't have much power to make many films, but I do have the power in what roles I choose.

It's about time that a woman my age or above, if she chooses to go into her 60s as an announcer, she should be allowed to do just that.

The first film always chooses you, but you choose the second one.

I won't apologize for choosing my career over kids.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

I became extremely choosy about films.