Alessandra Mussolini Quotes

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.

I have the career that I want.

I never put a premium on making a living. It was never one of those things that was important to me.

I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're successful, you'll earn money and I was happy to receive it.

I think about the work I've landed, and I think to myself, 'If I never land a job again, I could still die happy.'

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

My dream job has already happened.

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

Performance is always something that will be a part of my career.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

I do wish I'd had a better career. Who wouldn't?

As long as I'm able to actually maintain a career where I can write full-time, I'll be thrilled.

This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.

Education is the first step on the ladder to economic empowerment.

I want to have a long career.

In my early twenties, I got the basics covered. In retrospect, one of the great things about success is that I never really had to work in a factory full-time. So that's a blessing.

I got the job I wanted when I was 22, and I'm not going to give it up now.

I know that I'm in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!

One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

I remember power-sliding on my knees the first time I got a job.