Quotes About Career

I knew I didn't want to be a doctor but didn't know what I wanted to do. I prayed, and all I heard back was: 'Do comedy.' It was something I had never done before, but I gave in, tried comedy, and the rest is history.

My prayers are being answered for my career. These are prayers I've been praying for as a kid.

I had just gotten a job on 'Preacher' on AMC and was in New Orleans starting work on that. My agent called and said 'Are you sitting down?' and I said 'No' and he said 'Scott Rudin wants you to do 'Hello, Dolly!' and all I could say was 'Oh my God, I'll have to call you back.'

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life.

Any time the Chicks want to play, that takes precedence, because we can make a lot of money.

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a character. I'm just not that precious.

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.

I've been fortunate, but I'm also not very precious about making sure I'm the star of a film.

There's precious little incentive to try and make it in the world of management - and that's especially true in England.

I've made a career of being precise.

It's not precisely that I'm not ambitious. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... much... to go on to the next level.

Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.'

If you aspire to be an actor, go ahead. But do have a backup plan because you can't predict your future in the industry.

You can never predict what's going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked 'Mad Men.'

You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.

You never know: there is a lot of movement in football. You can never predict where you're going to play.

Attempting to predict shoulder and elbow issues due to extensive innings early in a pitchers career is an inexact science.

A good deal of my effort goes into the selection of films, because these things cannot be just predicted, so I am careful about the movies I finally do. Next year, too, I will have four or five films where I play different roles.

I've never landed in a series that I could have dreamt in my life. That's why, when people say, 'Well what are roles you're dying to play?' I say, I don't even have such a list, because everything that's ever been great that I had a shot at came completely out of the blue. I could not have predicted it.

For artistic fulfillment I prefer to work live. For career advancement, I go to the media.

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.