Eva Marie Saint Quotes

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

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

The business of working at getting work is pretty intense. But you don't get the rewards of actually working.

My career, it's been a mess.

And opportunity doesn't always come. I thought I should have had a head-coaching opportunity a long time ago. Called plays in the Super Bowl. Won the game. No phone calls.

I really wanted to work and become independent.

It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role.

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

The best way that I can give my best advice is not to be encumbered with any job with any administration.

One of the difficulties of a job in the, quote, 'real world' is you don't really get time to shut yourself off in a room and think.

I certainly don't need a job. Getting re-elected is not on my Top 10 list.

That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you develop your preferences as a person. Knowing what you like will make you more confident. And then you'll stand out.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

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

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.

There's a lot of great directors that I want to work with, but as soon as I mention them, I never get a chance to work with them.

Your first job can set the trajectory for the rest of your career.

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.

There are a lot of good managers out of work because there are only so many jobs out there, and if you get it wrong two jobs running, it's hard to get a third one. That's generally the rule.

Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

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

Sometimes people think there is only one track to get to whatever your particular dream job is.

I was never one of those people that would just take jobs that were thrown at me.