Quotes About Career

Ja Rule not doing '2 Fast 2 Furious' changed Ludacris's life.

A bit of me would like to be a furniture designer or a criminal profiler.

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

A lot of people assume that once you're working in Hollywood you become some sort of glamour-diva, which could not be further from the truth about me.

I can't tell you the number of times people have told me if I just lost 10kg, I could go much further in my career. But I'm determined to show them - and other average-size women - it is doable and possible.

It's not that you can do this calculated move to try to further your career. You just follow what's in your heart, and later you look back and go, 'I was either really dumb or really smart, I can't believe I did that.'

Health management is my passion, and I hope to further my career in that area in the future.

For me, Facebook and Twitter was always just a way for me to reach out to the fans of the show, to communicate with my friends who where in the business, and I never felt like I wanted to use it to further my career in some way. I don't know that it has the power or the ability to do that. I just never thought about it in those terms.

I don't know. I feel really lucky. I've just got work in the way that I really enjoy working. That's not too much fuss. Just getting up and going on set every day.

I was averaging about one movie a year my whole career, and that was because I'm fussy. I probably could have done more.

For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

People often ask me whether I plan to apply for a job after an MBA, but I tell them it is just to gain knowledge.

We all know this is a pretty intense business. There's a lot that happens, a lot that goes on here. Just like any other job, you want to be happy, and once you've gained that respect, you want to be treated with that type of respect.

I came to Los Angeles to be an actor, which is, at best, a gamble.

Working in Bollywood is like gambling, you cannot plan in advance.

Most people don't know who I am in the industry. I'm far from 'Conan' and 'Game of Thrones.'

'Game of Thrones' is my big break, so I've got to make the most of it, keep acting well.

You get a lot of respect for 'Game of Thrones,' and it was a lot of fun to play, but it didn't help my career a lot because Khal Drago doesn't even speak English.

I really love being in 'Game of Thrones,' but I don't know if it's my big break.

I realized I loved working in television as well as film. Besides, if I hadn't been forced to look for work in TV, I'd never have gotten to work on 'Game of Thrones.'

Hollywood has never been a goal, necessarily - there was no 'Conquer America' game plan for me.

I started working at Airtight Games after I shipped 'Left 4 Dead 2' back in 2009.