Sasheer Zamata Quotes

I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that recognition that will hopefully get you opportunities.

'House' has opened a lot of doors for me. I've met a whole bunch of people and got a whole new bunch of contacts. I've got the golden ticket.

I enjoy my job. And I love the city of Chicago, and this organization - it gave me the start to my whole career.

Being in New York and having worked at Time Out New York and then being at Time, living in New York for a long time has helped because I know everybody. And they're the people who call me and give me jobs. So that kind of real networking, which is just living in a place and having jobs where people around you are extremely successful, has helped me tremendously.

I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move.

I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, which is a big band out of New York.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

People always tell me the next stage of my career means moving to New York, but I never will. I don't care how that affects my career, and I think it's stupid that it would.

I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself.

Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

Many, if not most, career opportunities come to you through people you know. So the more people you know, the more opportunities you have. Improving your social network is a great example of a system for moving from lower odds to better odds without having a specific goal.

I don't think you can get everything based on who you know, but you can't get anything until you do know the right people.

As soon as I came to L.A., things immediately shifted for me. I was now actually here with the people who were making the decisions; I wasn't out in New York sending in tapes to L.A.

Even after choreographing some big numbers, I didn't qualify as the top choreographer. You need to have godfathers and big people to support you for others to take you seriously.

I love working in Dublin, but when I'm in London, I'm more focused on my career.

There's a lot of 'who you know' in this business, and I don't think I skipped a step on the journey.

The most important thing is to recognize how important it is to market yourself and make connections.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a screenplay writer or a photographer. First question people asked me: 'Who do you know? Any contacts?'

I moved to New York because I thrive there.

The knowledge you have through so much shooting, so much work you do, you develop yourself very fast. And because of the success of 'Killing Eve', it moves on to another level and the possibility to get more jobs.

I'd like to start my managerial career in England.

Ask people who have the job you want how they got it.