Ronny Chieng Quotes

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

I am suspicious of career engineers, people that plan it out every step of the way.

There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

On a career level, I always advise people to look ahead and be open to changes in direction. That job that seems so good now can easily turn into a nightmare if you do not see the possible corners it can land you in.

I am not bothered about my career graph, as I am someone who doesn't believe in planning things.

That's the cool thing about how my career has been - you never know where I'm showing up next.

I find in my career that I never know what's going to happen in two months.

I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

I often don't know what I'll be working on next year or a year from now. There is often a chance meeting, or something that I worked on 10 years ago suddenly becomes important again.

My career needs to progress. Time's ticking.

I can't take a view of the future of every player.

The day I graduated, I skipped the ceremony to go straight to California for the dot-com boom.

If you are a manager who is in your first or second job, the big worry would be where is your next job coming from, but I'm not in that position.

I don't want to plan my career. That would be a business plan. Filmmaking is not a business plan.

Could I stay at Bayern my entire career? I'm not the type of person who looks that far ahead. I am setting short-term goals instead.

I want to make sure I leave no stone unturned when it comes to my career.

If someone had told me age 14 to start making serious decisions about my career, I'd have laughed!

I always focus on what is next in my career.