B. J. Novak Quotes

I am a mom as well as a senator!

You don't want your personality to eclipse your work because no one would be interested in seeing your work anymore.

I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.

I have my own show. I get to work in Hollywood on my own project. If I can still make it back home by eight to put the kids in bed, then wow: I am having my cake and eating it, too.

I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

If someone is a known spectacular quantity, then they're probably working in a job and very happy with that.

When a director you admire says that he wants to work with you, it's always a compliment, very good for your ego.

Women have shown their skills and that's why they have been accepted in the industry. It's through their skill that they have managed to make a mark for themselves and also earned respect.

What I've been doing over the course of my career - everybody's been seeing me be my best self.

My success on the road is predicated on my success in Hollywood.

I want my sheer work to to speak for my talent and it will be quite an achievement, I believe, if producers and directors look at my work and offer me something.

People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars.

I used to say if there was anything I would really want to have as I kind of get older in my career, it would be wonderful to have relevance to somebody in some way so that I could continue to work on some level.

I've learned in my career, it is much better to be recognized for all the great things you do on the field.

I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

My complaint with Dr Singh is that he sometimes does not highlight his achievements enough.

You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.

I always felt like a successful actor when I got a job.

Outsiders always look for a reason to explain why they are not inside. They never look in the mirror. Let's face it, the profession I'm in is a very simple and a very cruel one. There is no way that you can create a career for someone without talent and no way to stop a career of someone with talent.

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.

Having worked my way from the bottom of the ladder to the top [of the UN] certainly helped me navigate that complexity, both political and bureaucratic.