James Ellroy Quotes

It's true that I have sacrificed certain jobs, and it's been a matter of fitting my career into the Globe rather than the other way around.

It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

I have to put my career first.

I gave up my whole life to my career.

Those who talk about the sacrifices that they make throughout a career, I do not understand too much. For me, the real sacrifice would be getting up early in the morning to work.

I'm concentrating on my career, which is my top priority. The rest will follow eventually.

Your job, what you do every day, I think it takes a high priority over anything. That was something I dedicated myself to throughout my career.

My career is my girlfriend.

If I'd done 'Top Gear,' I would have had to have left my job, and I've got the best job in the world. To do 'Top Gear' and do it properly would mean leaving work, and I can't. I don't want to leave work.

I wouldn't want to sacrifice the last years that I have of being youthful in this business to have kids.

For me, my career and passion is InMobi. So I hardly get stressed working for it.

My two great fears are either not working or working on something that means you can't do something else you really want.

What I'm about to say won't be popular, but it's true: If being a television showrunner is the job you want, and you are a woman, I would not suggest you have children. The reality is that you just cannot do both well.

It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.

I am a big fan of A.R. Rahman and Mani Sharma, and I went to a shop to buy these music directors' CD. But I had only Rs 100, and Rahman's CD cost more, so I couldn't buy both. So I bought Rahman's CD and stole Mani Sharma's CD.

Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.

I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends.

I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid.

On a personal basis, when I decided to become a writer, about the last reason I did it was because I thought I'd meet interesting people and make new friends. But that has turned out to be the very best part.

I want to be a bi-continental working actor and writer.