Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

I must say I have turned down several great companies, so I'd probably say I have to keep learning.

I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

If you are a manager who is in your first or second job, the big worry would be where is your next job coming from, but I'm not in that position.

You take the job, you learn from it, and you move on.

I've been a paperboy, a short-order cook, a warehouse clerk, and, eventually, a partner at IBM.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

I moved out after college, and I started working right away, and I've been working ever since.

I had a lot of different jobs.

I've sort of overlapped every job that I've done, really.

I look to gain experience wherever I play.

I have had so many gaps that I have not been consistently working, and the thing is that you get better with more work.

I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, 'Where do I want to be?' but 'What do I want to learn from this?' Use that opportunity to be a sponge.

A job leads to a job, just like anything else, and it became apparent that this was probably what I was going to keep doing.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.