Ariel Helwani Quotes

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

I could never plan to have a career that went this well... you know, there were times when it didn't: when it went into the toilet, or ducked, or was difficult to get moving.

My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand.

Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out.

I had doors slammed in my face; I had a lot of news directors who wouldn't give me the time of day. Some told me I wouldn't have a future in the business.

There's been times when it has been tough professionally.

I've dealt my entire career with sexist and condescending people.

An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.

I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.

I think, no matter how successful you are, there is some struggle of one kind or the other for every actor at every level. There are times when your work progresses at an extremely slow pace.

Obviously, there's times in your career when people doubt you.

Women have to work harder to be in the same position as a fella because they often have to balance work with running a family.

Young people encounter great challenges at the beginning of their careers.

For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.

You see actors who make family work, but it's difficult for any woman.

I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.

It's a really complicated road if you're an MMA fighter.

When you go through certain moments of your career and you're struggling, it just takes time. Time heals, when you're a little bit down.

You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.

Women have to work exceptionally hard.