Kirsten Dunst Quotes

I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with. And I'm lucky enough to be in a position where I can wait six months for a project that really interests me.

Post 'Pink,' I figured out which direction I want my career to take.

I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film.

I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.

I don't think I've necessarily been able to pick and choose in my career; I don't know how many people do. But I'll tell you what I've been able to do: I've been able to say no. It is the only thing you can hold on to sometimes, is that ability to say 'no.' And I think that in that way, you can create some kind of career.

I was never one of those people that would just take jobs that were thrown at me.

At the end of the day, everybody has the right to choose their own path in their career.

No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.

I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.

My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.

One day I woke up, and I felt like I knew I wanted to be an analyst and a broadcaster.

My career choice is my career choice. Just stepping out of that zone, to be able to be a provider. I understand my position as a provider and my role as a dad also... Just being able to be comfortable with it.

I don't think of careers from a functional perspective or from a subject matter perspective. I think of careers as, how do you like spending the time in your day? What makes you happiest? What are you most passionate about?

I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.

My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads.

I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.

Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.

I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work with, and I hope that it works out.

I encourage others to choose a career they are passionate about and can do for the rest of their lives.

I've had my eyes opened to so many things. But still, all I really want to do is my truck job. It's like an ingrained, default setting.

I have got two paths - one to go into the media, the other to go into coaching and management. I have got offers from both.