Quotes About Career

You have to connect on emotion not logic. People go on dates and it becomes a CV exercise. Logic is someone asking 'what do you do for a job?' when you should ask 'why do you do that? What is it you enjoy?'

I'm not dating anyone until I get my career where I want it to be.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

I'm a father with two daughters, and I don't want them to feel that they have to go and work in China when they are older.

After 'Dil Aashna Hai,' I became busy, as my daughters Esha and Ahana were growing up, and I had to look after them.

I do look at both of them and think: 'No matter what I have achieved in my career, my daughters are the best thing I have ever created.' No competition at all, really.

Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

Everybody said, 'You hit it so big when you were on 'Ally McBeal.' ' I didn't do anything for a year after 'Ally McBeal,' and I had to write David Kelley to get myself back on 'Ally' a second time because I thought the character should be on again.

I was living in Seattle. I was 21 years old, just going to do theater. And I got a call that David Lynch was in town and wanted to meet with me.

If I've only got a career if I bring David Brent back, you can have it.

I don't love getting up at the crack of dawn and having makeup put on my face for three hours - like, I really don't like it - and then having a part that's just not that challenging.

I'd been working with Chuck Lorre since the dawn of time, starting with 'Dharma and Greg,' so when I get a call about a really cool opportunity to work with him, I say yes, even before I know what it is.

It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.

In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career.

I'm not nervous coming back to my old audience. I'm looking forward to it. That's really what I do; that's my day job.

I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.

I've always had a day job and never been just acting.

I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.

Hollywood is my day job.

I still read scripts, and if something great comes along, that's great... but this is my day job. The Row is where I go every day.

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.

Doing radio commercials was how I was really able to leave my day job.