Faye Marsay Quotes

When I was younger, it was so much easier. All I needed to do was just get a job. It was like, 'Oh, my God, I have a job! I can call myself a working actor.' But then, the older you get, you have to be more selective, and that's tough.

If you are a manager who is in your first or second job, the big worry would be where is your next job coming from, but I'm not in that position.

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

I never could get a proper job.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

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

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

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

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

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

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

If you want to hire the best people, the best people are already doing pretty impressive things. They have their life plans, their picture for what they want to be doing. To figure out a way in which those trajectories align really takes time.

There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

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

I'm just confident about where my career is headed.

I have had so many gaps that I have not been consistently working, and the thing is that you get better with more work.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

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

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.