Alfred Molina Quotes

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

I'm happier in my career now than I've ever been.

I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

Anybody can get a job, but what do you do when you have it?

I don't think you've done something by getting a job. I think you've done something by proving you can succeed at that job.

I always found new challenges in my career.

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

I tell people in their careers, 'Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.'

For the majority of my career, I've been surprised that I've been able to sustain any kind of a plan. I was always happy to have the job, and I was having a good time. I was growing. But I don't feel all that strongly about my work.

It's been 35 years since I left school. Almost nine of them were in government; all the rest were in the private sector. And I've proven over time to be a great leader.

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

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

But I want to do good work, after this series.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

I love working. It's one of the real thrills of my life.

I judge the jobs I've had in this business by the places they took me, and by that standard, there simply has been nothing to match 'The National Sports Daily.'

I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.