Imelda May Quotes

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

You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I've just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?

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 really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.

'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.

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

Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.

I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

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

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

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

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

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 really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

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.

You don't have to force your career to happen all at once.

I'm in that lucky percentile where I can worry about how I want to shape my career. That's a wonderful place to be.

I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.

I will never go to the Centre. I have never been an aspirant for any post or for any role at the Centre.

Fifty career picks is a huge deal for me.