Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

I've been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful, but they weren't right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

The true value proposition of education is employment.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

We need to invest in people's lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career.

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.'

I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

My whole mission is to have a long, interesting career, not a short spiky one.

I went to college. I did that but I worked at the same time, and I trained.

For a long time, I played for me, for my career.

It's hard work if you want a proper and a lasting career.

It's a short career, so I always try to focus, and I want to be in the elite for a long time.

As a player I think you naturally think long term and think what is the schedule in the next year or so.

I plan on having a long career. I don't want to burn out.

If jobs are important, education is important.

Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

I'm very career-minded.