Nicolas Anelka Quotes

I don't want to take anything that's coming in for the sake of work. I want to choose carefully, as I have done since leaving 'EastEnders.'

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.

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

I have no ambition to be a technical director or TV pundit.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract.

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.

I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time.

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.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

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

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

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

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.