Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

Everybody is going to face adversity at some point, definitely when you leave college and try to get into the real world so to speak and get your first job.

I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated in 1968 it was quite a shock to find out that there was a world out there and that it wasn't going to support me.

I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.

To start your working life after you've graduated from school and university, it takes you a long time to get started in the real world. Today, kids are not out into the workforce until 27 or 30 years of age. By the time I was 30, I had six kids and 60 trucks.

I always just wanted to write and maybe direct. I'm really only interested in that. And yet the business that I'm in has forced me into being a salesman - that's the last thing that 17-year-old me would imagine I'd end up being. I'm uncomfortable trying to sell anything, but that's what you're doing every time you walk into a pitch.

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

I struggled for so long to try to create a career.

An artist has to know who she is and to be consistent in building her career.

I never had a job. I never saw myself working for corporate business.

The worst thing we can do is graduate kids who aren't prepared for the real world.

I wanted to set 'Heading Out' in a real world, a concept I originally struggled with, as I don't have a proper job.

It was definitely a very appealing prospect to be in a company, especially as an art student: we had it hammered into us that the odds of us finding a job, especially fresh out of school, was very slim, and we could expect to work as a bartender for the next three years after we graduate.

I went to college for political science and got a bartending job.

I took a long time after 'Curious' to find something I really wanted to do.

The whole point of college is to find yourself, to figure out things before you go into the real world.

When I got out, there weren't too many job opportunities for snipers.

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

People shouldn't choose their careers on whether it's cool or not. They should choose their careers on, 'Are they good at it, do they love it, is it going to give them a good life?'