Raashi Khanna Quotes

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

Fox would hire me in a minute. And believe it or not, CNN would, too.

I liked my old job better.

If I want another job, I'll get one. I haven't set a date of when to stop managing.

My family said that a big firm was where you'd get the most opportunities. I knew nobody who had ever worked at a firm, nobody who knew anything about it. I just tried to get the best job I could.

It's so hard to get into this industry. There are so many people who are so talented, and they never get those opportunities.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever.

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.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

Why should you stay in one place and one country if they're not offering you a job? It doesn't make sense!

My first real break was meeting my manager, Julie Gibson. She's the one that introduced me to Ford and Innovative and got me started.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

You can't get work without working.

I'm always trying to look for different roles.