Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.

I've had a good career, some good experiences.

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

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.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.

There's not much that I haven't done in my life, but there's lots of things that I'd like to do better. The variety of my career has been the fun of it, and I can thank Canada for that.

I do have to say, there is this incredible benefit to being older. I never thought I'd say that. I've figured out that show business isn't the end-all. I thought I'd never be tired of Hollywood, of the experience, and I have to say there's some relief. As you get older, your taste changes.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

At certain times during your career, at different ages, you feel better than others.

I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more or less.

Sometimes it's okay for careers to find you.