Quotes About Career

People are going to hire you, or they're not, and there's only so much you can do to hedge your bets.

My husband is an editor, and in fact he was the first person who hired me as an assistant editor. Then we fell in love and the rest was history.

When I graduated, I was really lucky because I got hired immediately by CBS as a production assistant.

I learnt a salutary lesson when I was being hired for the 'Six O'Clock News' and others were being fired, people who I thought were great, like Jill Dando. Letting her go was a big mistake, in my view. But that is probably going to be me one day - I'll read about it in the press and that will be that.

I'll just say that there are certain people who continue to be hired in Hollywood, and that leaves me truly shocked.

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.

I thought I was going to be hired as a contributor, but 'The Daily Show' was like, 'Nah, it's an election year, we want you to come over here and work full-time.'

I worked starting when I was 14. I was the reservationist at the Elizabeth Howard dinner theater. They had never hired someone in high school, let alone a 14-year-old.

For about a year, I worked for 'Daily Kos.' They were great. I mean, they allowed me to write whatever I was thinking about and feeling. 'The New York Daily News' saw it. They were making some pretty big changes. They hired a new editor in chief. I was his first hire.

I said it when I got hired. I said, for five years, I had a 1,000 people telling me I was going to be a head coach in the NBA. And when I got the job, those same 1,000 people were shocked.

I came up in Australia and I was really lucky that straight out of school I was hired in a play. It was a production of 'The History Boys.'

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

I was gonna work in a university, but no one was hiring.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, just keep hiring me.

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

Historically, Disney Channel stars don't survive well outside of the Disney environment.

The EPA historically has been an agency where people go to work at the agency and spend their entire career, 30, 40 years at the agency.

My music has been a hit all through my career since 1973.

I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.

When I started my career, I gave four flops, and then four hits, two flops, two hits, and then three flops.