Ben Stiller Quotes

My career has taken so many directions.

The best thing about my career is the journey.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

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

There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a character. I'm just not that precious.

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to... stomach.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

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

Ultimately, I want a career where I get to try as many things out as I can.

I have an inspired career other than just singing.

I'm pretty happy with my career. I just know what I'm capable of.

I always found new challenges in my career.

You never know the way your career takes.

I had these false ambitions - marketing and MBA. I didn't do very badly at it, but I realised my calling was something else.

People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

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 am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.