Johnny Mathis Quotes

One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'

My idea of that[idea of career] is constantly changing. I mostly just throw it out to the universe and I can't really do much after that. I've never taken the steps to be "successful": I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house. I've talked to people about it but I've never followed through because it gives me the creeps.

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.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

I don't know what drives me. I need to work. I wanted to be in the entertainment field, but I didn't know what.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

I don't really know how to build a career or what to do. But I have the instinct to keep doing different things so people can see different things.

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

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.

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that.

I have no particular career agenda.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.