Harvey Keitel Quotes

It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.

My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

I have always enjoyed my work and have chosen only what I thought was interesting by way of a role.

I don't think of careers from a functional perspective or from a subject matter perspective. I think of careers as, how do you like spending the time in your day? What makes you happiest? What are you most passionate about?

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

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

People shouldn't choose their careers on whether it's cool or not. They should choose their careers on, 'Are they good at it, do they love it, is it going to give them a good life?'

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

My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

I just love where I am right now in my career.

I think that the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

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

It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.

What I want out of my career is just to work.

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

There's not anyone in particular I'd like to work with. I just want to continue doing work that I have a passion for.

My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.

It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job.

Your first job can set the trajectory for the rest of your career.

I'm happy with my career.

I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked me then, that was one of the greatest jobs that had happened to me in terms of my career.