Willem Dafoe Quotes

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

I was a late bloomer on the career front.

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 got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.

I just want a really varied career, and just to keep going, really.

I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.

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

I'd like to think that every job and every step I've taken progressed more and more toward the career that I've wanted to have.

I think throughout your whole career a player can improve.

The people at Utrecht know that I'm always looking to improve myself and that I want to get the maximum out of my career.

I'm just confident about where my career is headed.

When you get to a certain point in your career, it's easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you're not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.

I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.

I want to go higher in my career. This is not my best. My best is yet to come.

I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, 'Where do I want to be?' but 'What do I want to learn from this?' Use that opportunity to be a sponge.

I think with anything career-related, there really is no rush.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

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.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.