Quotes About Career

Some people look at TV as a means to an end. I look at it as my career - and one I love.

After doing modeling and films, I was always keen on doing TV. It was in my to-do-list. So when 'Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi' happened, I was more than happy.

I intend to do more directing TV.

I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from being in the music business as a teenager in a girl group to doing Broadway for three years in 'Hairspray,' and also doing TV and film.

The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

I was an actress long before I was a reality TV person.

I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.

I thought I have no chance in films and so wanted to do TV. I was very confident that I might become a star on small screen.

In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.

I did some British TV and bits and bobs here and there. I've been lucky.

It's odd, because 'Mad Men' was the first long-form TV thing I ever did. I'd done loads of independent movies, but after that, it was 'TV actor.' You go, 'When did that happen? Everything else has been erased?'

By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.

All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.

You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.

Shah Rukh Khan started his career with television, and now he is a superstar. You can't generalise and say that TV actors can't make it to films.

Modelling was never a career option for me; it was always a hobby. I was modelling while I was pursuing my B.Tech, so the obvious choice after finishing my studies was to do a job. But while I was modelling and doing TV commercials, I really loved being in front of the camera. I enjoyed the shooting process.

When I moved to New York I started to do a lot of TV commercials. It just kind of naturally evolved from still photography to commercials.

I suddenly got magazine covers, TV commercials and advertising campaigns. Finally after two years I could show my mum and dad that modeling was lucrative.

I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.

I wasn't so sure about signing up for 'Law & Order.' I liked the show, but another TV series? I'll tell you, though, it's been great, and I had no idea how popular the show was.

Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.

I just don't want to work as hard as you have to for a TV series.

I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.