Quotes About Career

People are often surprised by the fact that I laugh a lot, that I look like Lena Dunham, and that I don't want to make relationship dramas for the rest of my career.

I think that you should just create if you have the urge to create. There's a lot of other careers you can pursue to seek attention. If people want validation, there are other ways to get that.

My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.

When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is.

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

My goals are to continue acting and also to produce some independent films in the next few years. Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.

I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do.

You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'

I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.

We learn by making mistakes. If you genuinely want to have a multifaceted career that takes you into multiple industries, then I think you have to be willing to fail.

When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

I don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a real job.

I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.

Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.