Quotes About Career

Sometimes I feel indie directors are in the game so they can make a film to get hired to do a big film - that we're all doing this person's reel.

I don't understand indie films. So, I won't do such films.

I actually didn't think I was going to do TV because I don't really watch TV. I'm a little bit pretentious, and I do these little indie movies, so I envisioned that more as the path for myself.

You're taught - consciously or sub-consciously - to make an indie so you can get through that terrible process and get to Hollywood. I realized when I got there, 'Oh, no; I think I'm better over here.'

Makeup is where my career is going, but I would love to also indulge in music. It's still one of my absolute favorite things in the world.

A working woman will never have the time to indulge in time-wasting activities such as gossiping.

Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures.

In this industry, very few actors can control their career.

I've been in this industry since I was 12 years old.

All of my life and particularly throughout of my public career, I have been talking about the feminization of poverty. And one of the manifestations of the feminization of poverty is the issue of pay inequality in our society.

Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.

I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

I get embarrassed saying what I do. If you're chatting to a cabbie, and they don't know you're an actor, I cringe because it's always coupled with the inevitable, 'So, what have I seen you in?' And you're left reciting your CV.

When guys get to a certain age or certain level in their career maybe they don't do as much or work as hard so they start to lose some of that stuff. It's inevitable that at some point your going to lose most of what you've had.

When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.

My dad had a huge influence on my career.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.

I started working when I was 17. After working for seven-eight years, I informed my parents about my acting decision.

Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.

My early acting was ingenue stuff.

I was playing 40-year-old women when I was 20. I didn't get considered for ingenue roles.