Quotes About Career

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.

Every job that you take, the term that you should always include is, 'How can I be involved in the strategic projects that are critical to the future of the company?' You ask that question. It's a great 'how' question.

Today I am announcing that I will not seek a tenth term in the United States Congress this November.

I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term.

Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.

'Doctor Who' would be overnight fame that would last for three years, and then what? I'm in this for the long term.

When Dad made a decision, whether it was about family or his own career, the majority of the time, it was for the long term, not the short term.

I've done some sitcoms here and there, but nothing long term.

Nowadays, the term 'selling out' doesn't exist anymore because everyone is trying to make a living.

You know when you take a manager's job it could be terminal. I was making sure there was enough in the bank to cover that, making sure myself and my family would be all right when I took the plunge.

A lot of times in my career, I've been the end point, the termination point of a lot of plays, just scoring the ball.

I think for anybody, regardless of what industry you work in, when you get a new job, and it's progressive in terms of your career, that is one of the best feelings in the world.

I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'

I got a degree in architecture for the educational experience but in terms of career, everything is cinema.

Salary negotiations shouldn't be limited to just salary. Salary pays your mortgage, but terms build your career.

I've received enough blessings for a lifetime in terms of my employment.

It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job.

In terms of work, I would like to work on a biopic and some people that I have met have mentioned that my life, in some way, is similar to Mumtazji. She was also a dancer and then became an actress so in that way, I relate with her. So I think if I get the chance, I would like to work in a biopic on Mumtaz.

I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked me then, that was one of the greatest jobs that had happened to me in terms of my career.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

I don't necessarily think that when I graduated college, I had a plan to work at an ad agency. I had a plan in terms of getting the best job I could, like, just whatever normal job.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

There are no doctors in my family, and I've joked about this, that my dad got the doctor daughter he always wanted. But I would make a terrible doctor - I hate the sight of blood!