Jessica Chastain Quotes

I don't really have any strategy for my career.

I don't know how I could plan my career.

If I want another job, I'll get one. I haven't set a date of when to stop managing.

I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do.

Ask people who have the job you want how they got it.

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

You have to take control of your own career.

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

I never think career.

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

I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

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

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

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

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.

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

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

I have never been interested in specific roles.