Jackie Shroff Quotes

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.

Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.

I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.

I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

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

As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

I didn't really chart things out, career-wise.

I've come to realize your career is all about the choices you make. Every single one matters.

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

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.

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.

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

The notion of 'building a career' had never been heard or dreamed of when I was young.

I never had planned for my life and my career.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.