Quotes About Career

I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

I just want to be happy. I want to be happy and be able to finish my career in the right way.

Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.

Really think hard about what you want to do, because when you're doing what you want to do is probably when you'll be doing your best. And pray it is not a hobby so they'll pay you for it.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

A lot of people kind of want to wait until you're off a show before they book you into a movie.

I'm not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I'm just going in and doing the job. I think that you can't fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That's my focus.

The bosses can't read your mind, so I think women should tell them what they want out of their careers.

I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.

When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a scientist or an actress. My daughter really wants to be a scientist. I really want her to be a scientist, not an actress!

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.

The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction.