Quotes About Career

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

I'm really into psychology, and I want to be a psych major.

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

I've thought about doing sports psychology at university, but it's quite hard.

What took some time for me to figure out was how to have a life outside my career, to find a way to be inclusive rather than exclusive. It came only after years of psychotherapy and deep soul-searching.

If I didn't work at ESPN, which I didn't until 2014, I would still be watching a psychotic amount of football for someone that doesn't do this for a living. I hope that never changes.

I spent the first 10 years of my career playing psychotic Scotsman. I'm still playing psychotic Scotsmen really, they've just become a bit funnier.

For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.

Each and every student deserves equitable access to a quality public education that prepares them for college, career, and citizenship.

I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.

Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I'm an actor, so I'm in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.

I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

I cannot turn my life back around. I'm already a public figure, I'm famous... It's like, I might as well keep it going, might as well make the money.

I worked at Columbia University's School of Public Health.

The moment I gave birth to my son, Eli, was the happiest in my life. He changed my world. My identity had always been shaped by my career - I thought of myself first as a physician and a public health official - but suddenly I thought of myself first, second, and third as a mother.

I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.

I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

I spent a few years after college as a Boston public school teacher and I loved it. But I was never committed to it, committed to it as a career.

Before I was in the Senate, I was a superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, and before that, I was in business.

I can be happy in the private sector, the non-profit sector, or the public sector.

Passion helps you in protecting the community, and public service will follow it. That has been my career. It is the passion that drives me to do what I do every day.