Michael Mayer Quotes

Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.

I never had planned for my life and my career.

I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

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

'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've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.

I think, in anyone's career, you have to map out some sort of strategy of steps that take you closer to the career you want.

Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.

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 never pursued a career relentlessly.

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

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

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

I have never been choosy throughout my career.

Everybody has a different goal and a way of planning his/her career.

Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.

I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.

My awesome career has been nothing but chaos. Whatever comes toward me feels like the right thing to do in the moment and that's great.

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 haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.

I felt like my career was out of my hands.