Bria Vinaite Quotes

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

I have to very consciously choose the kind of work I want to do.

I want to work as hard as I can and continue to make a career for myself.

It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.

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

Because the intention wasn't always to be an actor, that hasn't been my number one guiding principle.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

But I want to do good work, after this series.

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.

I had in mind a long career.

I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

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 always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.

I don't know what drives me. I need to work. I wanted to be in the entertainment field, but I didn't know what.

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

There is a lot of stuff we can't control, but it is completely in our power to decide what the definition of what a good job is. That's up to us.

It's often said that if doing something was easy, everyone would be doing it. I think that's particularly true when you're trying to make your mark or architect your own career. There's often not a path to follow.