Quotes About Career

Aditya Chopra is my mentor and one of my favorite directors.

Whenever someone asks me for career advice, I always tell them to find a mentor. Find someone who has done what you want to do, and study the way they got there.

My father was a great mentor to me and is someone I admire and look up to. However, it was my mum who was more of a driving force when it came to me and cricket - she constantly encouraged me to always remember to have fun when playing. And Mum was the one who took me round the grounds at the beginning of my career.

After watching 'Pagal Nilavu' I decided Mani Ratnam should be my mentor and joined him.

I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

I only did four days on 'Just Mercy' at the same time I'm playing a cowboy in another movie.

I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I'll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.

When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get to 40, I would like to see where I'm at in my career because I might want to go, 'You know what, I'm done. I'm just happy with everything,' and I'm going to go off my merry way, and I'll probably never pick up a golf club ever again.

I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

I never thought I would work with Meryl Streep. I also love Cate Blanchett.

I really admire actresses like Meryl Streep; I would love to have a career like hers.

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

I think many women are successful in their professional lives - they are making the money and all that - but in their personal lives are a complete mess, because they haven't paid any attention to it, because they spent all of their time being successful.

My career, it's been a mess.

I have done good work in television and wouldn't want to mess it with a wrong move.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

It's your career, your face, your name. You have to be in control because if something gets messed up or something doesn't look how you want it to, you're the only one to blame.

I came into advertising in 1961. I had been turned down for jobs on the Ford account in the late Fifties as 'not their type.' If it hadn't been for Bill Bernbach, I would now be sitting in some luncheonette, continuing my life as a messenger.

At the beginning of my career, I wasn't coaching players like Messi.

Who could say no to playing with Messi for four months and then coming back to L.A.?

'Jab We Met' is the reason why I have become an actress.

Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.