Lena Olin Quotes

As you move along, it's about choices. Once you've gathered enough credits, you have to be more specific. You have to know what level of show you want to work on and be willing to turn down a lot of work to have the career you want.

One of the perks of growing up, but also one of the biggest challenges, is making decisions about the future. Deciding what kind of job you want, whether you want to finish school, or whether you want to go to university are huge choices to make.

I'm not sure what I want to do - business, law, something else.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.

Even though I have been receiving offers left, right and centre, I have been a little choosy about my projects.

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

I've come to realize your career is all about the choices you make. Every single one matters.

I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now.

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

I don't know how I could plan my career.

I don't think I've ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role - I just see what comes up.

I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

I get offered stuff that I don't really want to do, so hopefully, I'm just kind of waiting for the right thing.

Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life.

I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.

You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.

As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career.

I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do.

I thought that's what you did, you know? You graduate high school, you went to work.