Gretchen Whitmer Quotes

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

The industry is big, and if I get an interesting role, I will take it up.

You don't have to start with your dream job, and your idea of what the dream job might be will change during a working life that will have its share of ups and downs, setbacks and advances.

You've gotta realize this - you could be working at Burger King or working for the biggest wrestling company in the world.

I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

First and foremost, I enjoy working. I'm not at that level where I can pick and choose anything. When I get hired, I take it, and I'm like, 'Let's go!'

Once a waitress, always a waitress.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

I love the idea that I have the power to look for the projects I can put myself into, but I'm still at that level of just being happy to have a job.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

There's an awful lot of choices in the world as far as what one can do for a living. It's best to be familiar with as many sectors of the working world as you can be so you'll be better at your creative job anyway.

Work is no longer challenging.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

But the working I would always want to do.

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a character. I'm just not that precious.

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.