Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.
You love what you do but it's still a job and you are limited in the time to earn money and you think about it if someone makes you a crazy offer.
There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away from the manual labor and servant-type jobs, but there wasn't much else they were going to allow you [to] do.
I became conscious in later life that I had been given an education that enabled me to do all kinds of jobs, but often, jobs weren't open to me.
Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.
The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.
In any political job, you recognize that your time is going to be limited.
We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.
I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.
Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.
I would say that as a government employee, I am subject to the Hatch Act.
So many people always fear tattoos because they don't want to limit themselves from certain jobs. I clearly never let that stop me and just got covered head to toe.
I couldn't relate to the mindset of people in my hometown. Since I had no educational qualification, I only got menial jobs in Delhi.
As fantastic as it is to have 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' as places to work, I don't often get to shoot the kind of things I like to photograph in the way I like to photograph.
