Sarah Gadon Quotes

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

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

I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'

I'd like to think that every job and every step I've taken progressed more and more toward the career that I've wanted to have.

I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.

I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

I've seen what can happen to an actor when he's just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it's ten years later, your career's happened, and you haven't had any control.

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

My advice today, to established acts and new-coming acts, is the same advice I'd give to myself: pause for a minute, and really think about 'What is your goal? Where do you see yourself?'

Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that.

The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

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.

You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.

I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.