Kunal Khemu Quotes

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

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

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.

I have never been choosy throughout my career.

I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

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

I have no particular career agenda.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder.

People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a character. I'm just not that precious.

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

I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

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

The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start.

I don't think I've ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role - I just see what comes up.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.