Job Exploration Quotes

I think it is the fact that I want to quit that keeps me going. It's very complicated. But I think part of this whole exploration with every job that I do is, in terms of overcoming fear and by overcoming the fear, I feel so much more complete, and I learn something new about myself.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

When I look at jobs, one of the most relevant questions I ask is, 'Is this something I've done before, or is it a chance to experience a new context, tone and relationship?' I also ask if it's a story worth telling and a character with a reason to exist... someone who reflects the human condition.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

Obviously, working at Google wasn't a mistake. I used to just walk around. I don't know if I was supposed to, but I'd just open doors and see what people were doing.

I don't work at something because I think it's important. I work at things that, to me, are interesting.

It's not like I wake up and think, 'Now I'm going to go to work.' It just feels like a continuing exploration.

I don't really know how to build a career or what to do. But I have the instinct to keep doing different things so people can see different things.

I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there.

I'd had a variety of jobs - shop assistant, writer of children's magazines - but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite an uninformed sports journalist so I might have stuck with that, but I would never have been very good at it.

Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?

In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

I was never afraid of taking the wrong job because maybe it would hurt me. I was more interested in the experience.

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.