Quotes About Career

When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because nobody could give me a good answer, I opted for acting.

My first job out of CalArts was performing monologues at the Women of Faith conferences across the country.

As an actor it somehow gets monotonous to play the same role again and again. But I can't say no to them as I earn my bread and butter from this.

During the mid-1980s, I felt my work was getting monotonous. I was shooting continuously, sometimes for 25, 30 films at a time.

I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

Alexander Rusev is one of the most incredible things I've seen in my entire 30-year career. He's a ferocious monster.

I've built my career around my life instead of being consumed by the fame monster.

I turned down a part in 'Petticoat Junction.' They wanted me to play a circus giant. I didn't want to take that step into type casting. I don't want to play freaks and science-fiction monsters.

When my bank balance runs low, then I sign a big Bollywood monstrous movie, and I make sure that I am safe for the next few years.

My first TV job was on an episode of 'Hannah Montana'... Since then, I've been fortunate to end up on shows that are just such a high quality, where the writing and material is incredible.

I've been on 'iCarly' and 'Hannah Montana.' And a few other things.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.

The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients next month, where you have less job security, is becoming much more common.

I would fight every month. Think about the finances I would have. That would be financial freedom.

I'm all for one month of going really hard and eating really healthy and boxing every day if you're doing it for, like, one job.

I was working a full-time job but not having anything in my savings account at the end of the month because of my bills and because acting in the beginning costs money.

I went to Carnegie Mellon for a year and a month or two, and then I dropped out because I got a movie. I didn't anticipate ever leaving school - I was a really serious drama student - and then that happened, and my life sort of took a turn.

I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

Yes, I worked in Montreal. I worked there for 20 years... I came back to Beauce in 2006 to represent the Beaucerons.