“My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.” HeartLittlesHas BeensI CanHouseCareersStrangeInvolvedProjectsBe GoodMonstersNow And ThenRoofGet Involved Author:Michael Madsen
“My favorite actor that I look up to is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. His career is something I look up to, I just want to be that guy. He's always part of projects that have a lot of soul and that's what I want to do as an actor.” WantLooksSoulGuyActorsCareersProjectsMy FavoriteLook UpThat Guy Author:Grant Gustin
“One thing I've found that's really helpful in our relationship is that she's [Anna Faris] very normal. And I don't mean ordinary - I mean, she doesn't act like a big star or a comic icon or anything like that. She's really down-to-earth and sweet, and we do talk about comedy, about movies, about our careers and possible projects.” MeanBigsEarthFoundStarsCareersComedyOne ThingSweetNormalProjectsOrdinaryComicHelpfulOur RelationshipIconsAnnaDown To Earth Author:Chris Pratt
“I used to scream at everybody at the beginning of my career. I'd get really emotional. I'd project all my issues about my parents and safety onto the executives, so every conversation where they gave a note was life or death and you don't love me.” UsedParentCareersIssuesEmotionalConversationProjectsSafetyNotesExecutivesScreamGet RealLife Or DeathYou Don't Love Me Author:Judd Apatow
“I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project, or trying to get involved with a project, or thinking about a project, and what particular emotional flavor that brings. To me, it's never really about planning the next thing, or the career arc. It's about investigating how I feel, from project to project, and finding things that I haven't explored and what that would be like.” ThinkingFeelsTryingWould BeReadingNextCareersHavensEmotionalParticularInvolvedFindingsProjectsPlanningFlavorGet InvolvedArcsInvestigatingFeels Just Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“My whole goal in my film career is to project a positive image on the screen, that I hope people will enjoy watching.” PeopleWholeFilmEnjoyGoalCareersProjectsScreensPositive Image Author:Chuck Norris
“The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.” I CanWholeGoalChallengesCareersProjects Author:Noel Fisher
“I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.” YearsShowsWantedMovingActingCareersCollegeProjectsEncouragementFinalsUniversityProfessionPursuitPursueProfessorsOne WomanSophomoreSophomore YearDeacons Author:April Parker Jones
“When I was younger, I thought, 'Ok, I'm supposed to do this project because it'll help my career,' but that didn't work because I ended up doing movies that I worked really hard on but I didn't really like and they didn't turn out well, so it was like I lost double. Once I just started working with people and projects I believed in, everything changed and I suddenly had a career that I loved and that I was proud of.” PeopleWellsHardHelpingTurnsLostCareersChangedProudProjects Author:James Franco
“I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.” YearsLongWantedHoursCareersRegretPerspectiveSixProjectsMajorsLong TimeTrainingEightChampionshipCompetingGet OverAthleticsNew ProjectsDoldrums Author:Daley Thompson
“I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybodys doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories.” ThinkingDifferentIndividualCareersPathProjectsErasFasterPredictableTrajectoryCareer PathDevelopmental Author:Alex Timbers
“I'd really like to have a family at some point. Not that I'm not focused on my career - of course I am... And if a great project comes my way, then of course I'll take it. But I'm not actively out seeking something specific.” IfsWayCoursesCareersProjectsSeekingFocusedMy Way Author:Megan Fox
“Actually even at the beginning of my career, I never felt rejected. I was still working hard and believed in myself. I wasn't in a hurry and was picking and choosing projects carefully even then when I was just a newcomer. My attitude towards films hasn't changed even after these years.” YearsStillsHardFilmFeltAttitudeCareersChangedProjectsRejectedMy AttitudeNewcomersPicking And Choosing Author:Katrina Kaif
“I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business.” WholeStoriesKidsMotherReadingSoundCareersProjectsCustomersMonstersSellingDramaticNightmareWerewolf Author:George R. R. Martin
“I've had a great career in sports broadcasting - but I'm interested in lots of things. I like to write, I like to produce video projects, and I love to appear on stage.” WritingSportsCareersStageProduceProjectsVideoBroadcasting Author:Ralph Strangis
“I don't think I've ever tried to be something that I'm not. People do that for you. People try to pigeonhole you. People tried typecasting me, before they even saw me in anything else. I've never understood that. I was like, "Why don't you wait until my next project, before you start telling my what my career is going to look like, for the next 10 years?" I've never let it set me back because I always knew the world would try to do that for me, anyway.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingYearsLooksNextWaitingCareersSawsProjectsUnderstoodTypecasting Author:Chris Colfer
“I wake up every day and think about what I am to other people. What I am to the people I employ, who depend on me to wake up and do my job that day and keep this career going? I think about what I am to the kids who listen to my music and all the other people involved in this project.” PeopleThinkingKidsJobsCareersDependsInvolvedProjectsWake Up Author:Halsey
“From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.” PeopleTryingFirstsFactsWantedUsedMy OwnCareersTeamStudentsInvolvedProjectsAdvantageEntrepreneurExcitedMissionsCoreMagazinesEnthusiasmSecureInterviewsFedsNew ThingsVentureRestlessGet InvolvedPublicityInexperienceTrying New ThingsNew ProjectsNewcomers Author:Richard Branson
“The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.” WayWritingWantedNaturalCareersShareBandProjectsPrioritiesSoloAnother WayEtcetera Author:Ken Hensley
“Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.” NextCareersProjectsExcitingConstantLooking Forward Author:Michael Ian Black
“Someone once told me it's more important what you turn down than what you take, and I think that rings true, especially when you're trying to make decisions about how you want to be viewed. It's hard, because I also want to have fun, and if there's a project that's super-small or low-budget or silly but it happens to have friends involved, I'll always take it, because my number-one priority is that I want to have fun with my career.” IfsThinkingWantTryingImportantHardHappensTurnsFunDecisionNumbersCareersInvolvedProjectsLowsPrioritiesRingsSillyHaving FunBudgets Author:Kristen Bell
“It would be quite unusual for me to get deep into a project and then shitcan it. One of the advantages of having done this for a while is that I have a better sense than I used to of when something is or isn't working. Until I developed that sense, this was a pretty dicey career for me, both in terms of paying the rent, and emotional wear and tear.” DoneWould BeUsedTermCareersTearsEmotionalProjectsAdvantageUnusual Author:Neal Stephenson
“The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project.” NeedsWholeWalksSecretBehindsCareersWillingDirectorsProjectsRefuse Author:Ruba Nadda
“The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility.” ThinkingSaidHomeInterestingCareersWorstRight NowAuthorityProjectsLateCriticismBudgetsCredibilityProposalVegasLas VegasStonehenge Author:Aleksandra Mir
“There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers. It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say” PeopleFeelingsProblemForceHurtCareersHabitProjectsStealingRuinsEnterprisePersistentHurt FeelingsRecurringPersonal Problems Book:TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN Source: TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN
“It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.” ThinkingWayActorsCareersProjectsExcitingLuxuryThink Of You Author:Marin Ireland
“I've been poked fun of throughout my career by fellow actors for my notes that I take. I have spiral notebooks that I carry with me on every project I do, and I take notes just so that if I have to relive a scene, if I have to go back, I know what I did.” IfsKnowsActorsFunCareersSceneProjectsFellowsNotesNotebookSpirals Author:Anna Chlumsky