Anthony Mackie Quotes

My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

I don't have a career. I have a life.

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

What I want out of my career is just to work.

Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work.

I know that I'm in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!

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 love what I do a lot, but it's my work.

We've all had a million day jobs. We got by fine then.

I'm not of the mind where, 'It doesn't matter what you care about; you've got to have a safe reliable job and do the 9 to 5.' I obviously don't subscribe to that. There's nothing wrong with that, though, if that's what you want to do.

I wanted to set 'Heading Out' in a real world, a concept I originally struggled with, as I don't have a proper job.

When I began my career, I worked purely for the money.

People shouldn't choose their careers on whether it's cool or not. They should choose their careers on, 'Are they good at it, do they love it, is it going to give them a good life?'

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

I go to work, and think 'wow, they pay me for this', and I go home.

I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.

I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do.

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.

I never think career.