Quotes About Career

I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really fell in love with doing film and television along the way.

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.

I don't know of any American playwrights who earn the bulk of their living writing plays. Many of the older ones teach, while a growing number of younger ones write for series television.

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

I have seen a lot of top players being forced to retire in not very pleasant circumstances, and I don't want that happening to me.

I'd like to work at the Royal Court Theatre, please.

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

I was so pleased to be offered 'Doctor Who.'

I'm really pleased with the way my career is shaping up. How many actresses get a chance to work with legends like Mani Ratnam and Sanjay Leela Bhansali?

I am really pleased to sign permanently with St. Etienne. It was my ambition in coming to St. Etienne. This is one of the finest passages of my young career.

It's quite difficult to explain, but I really enjoyed playing against Arsenal, and I'm really pleased that we had great results against them during my career.

I am pleased about making a comeback in Bollywood, but then I really cannot think about leaving South Indian cinema. Whatever I am today is because of South films, and I cannot give up on that.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

Ingenue parts are plentiful. And once you get old, they'll start hiring you again for character parts. But the middle years are tough.