Beth Ditto Quotes

My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.

I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.

No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.

It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a good way. You just never know what's going to happen. And things change constantly. But there's always opportunities for new work, so you just have to enjoy the job that you're on while you're on it because it doesn't last forever.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

I admit, I'm suspicious of any career planning that involves chasing the next 'big thing,' just because it's so hard to predict what the next big thing is going to be a couple of years - or even six months - out.

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

On a career level, I always advise people to look ahead and be open to changes in direction. That job that seems so good now can easily turn into a nightmare if you do not see the possible corners it can land you in.

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

I never thought in a million years I would be in a girl group, so I can't look too deep into the future.

There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.

I hope my career will be long-term. It's not something I'm taking for granted, but we try to plan that way.

You never know the way your career takes.

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.

In your career, you must be so careful; otherwise, you get caught in a particular image, and it's hard to break.

I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

I have no particular career agenda.

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.

I felt like my career was out of my hands.