Matthew Ashford Quotes

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 always found new challenges in my career.

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.

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.

I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

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.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

I don't think anyone wants to be in a role forever.

Honestly, six months before getting 'Orange Is the New Black,' I remember telling my manager I was done.

I'm always trying to look for different roles.

I don't play for job security.

If you're not in a place where you're grateful that your show keeps getting renewed, and you can't figure out a way to keep it fresh, you should pick another career.

I feel like if you're stuck doing the same thing your whole career you've got to be doing something wrong. Unless you're getting great results from it or you're just comfortable in that spot.

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.

I just survived a Disney career without singing. I don't want to, like, fall back in. I feel like I escaped, so if we could avoid it for as long as possible, that would be great.

I don't know where I'm at in my career and I don't really keep track of that or care about that.

The best thing about my career is the journey.

When work starts feeling too comfortable, fire yourself; go get another job.

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.