Siddharth Shukla Quotes

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder.

I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

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

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

I don't know where I'm at in my career and I don't really keep track of that or care about that.

You never know the way your career takes.

My idea of that[idea of career] is constantly changing. I mostly just throw it out to the universe and I can't really do much after that. I've never taken the steps to be "successful": I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house. I've talked to people about it but I've never followed through because it gives me the creeps.

You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I've just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?

I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

I know a lot of actors have all these expectations and believe that one thing should lead to another thing, and that's probably the right way to build a career. I don't know what's wrong with me - I just don't think like that!

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.

You've got to build a career and a practice.

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

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

If you had asked me, did I have everything nailed down and wired about what I wanted to do, and was I following some real plan? No. In fact, by the time I was in my mid-20s or even late-20s, and I was still in the law firm, I really was starting to get a little nervous that I didn't know what I was going to do.