Melvyn Bragg Quotes

You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I've just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

I've seen what can happen to an actor when he's just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it's ten years later, your career's happened, and you haven't had any control.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

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.

My whole career has been completely random and haphazard.

I don't want to regret anything in my career.

My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

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

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.

My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.

The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.

I've never been that career conscious.

I haven't always made all of the right decisions from a career perspective, but things worked out in the end.

My professional career only began at 21, really.

I don't feel like my career path has changed.

If you analyze my career graph, you will see that I'm slow at choosing projects.