Quotes About Career

It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.

It is complicated, but I've always said that I would have liked to retire at Barca.

I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.

I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well... who actually becomes a composer?'

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood.

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

Being a classical musician, you can go to school for it; you can go get a degree. Even as a composer, there is a certain career path you can follow, but becoming a rock musician is a much more elusive career. How do you learn that or do that?

I have completed 21 years of composing music in Indian films.

I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university.

I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

You want to be the best at your career, you want to be the best mum, a great wife and all of that. Most of the time, it's not possible. You have to compromise somewhere.

I love what I do too much to compromise on it. I would rather wait for the work that excites me than just go and do a job so I can stay busy.

I don't know how you make a living without a few personal compromises.

Earlier in my career, there may have been compulsions for accepting films for money.

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

I want to star in an action-comedy, like 'The Rock' or 'Con Air.' Those are the movies I wanted to star in since I was a kid.

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.

I've made a commitment to concentrate on my career as an entertainer.

I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs.

I don't think I'd want to concentrate on just acting because I love music, and things are going really well, so I think I will always continue to make music.