Quotes About Career

The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

Thank God I'm at that point in my career where I don't have to take stuff that I don't really want to do.

When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL.

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to L.A. And I thought, "I want to sell out!"

I was working in a family business-the fur business - and I hated it. I was reading the New York Times want ads, and I saw a photographer's assistant job in Vogue. Things went from there.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

I think it's cool when Scorsese will pop up in a movie or something like that. I never want to make a career out of that or anything. I like directing. That's my favorite thing.

I don't know if I have the patience and I don't have a trainers license but I will help out. Whether I want to do that full time, I doubt it.

I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not.

I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main reason being there was something I wanted to do far more, which was be an artist.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.

In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.