Mena Massoud Quotes

I never felt my career was going backwards.

I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

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 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.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I've grown as a writer.

I think throughout your whole career a player can improve.

When I first got started I had no idea my career would last as long as it did.

I hoped 'Starlet' would finally open doors for me and lead to a much bigger budgeted movie, but that didn't happen.

Everybody has a different goal and a way of planning his/her career.

If I could have written a script of how I wanted my career to be, I couldn't have done it any better.

'Vikram Vedha' is special because it has taken me to the next level in my career.

I was a late bloomer on the career front.

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 want to work as hard as I can and continue to make a career for myself.

There's always room for growth. I feel like I'll never get to the point where I'm 100 percent happy with where I am with my career.

Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

I don't really understand the concept of having a career, or what agents mean when they say they're building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies.

I also feel like the kinds of jobs I want right now - I consider them aspirational. I want to raise the bar for myself, and I am in this interesting spot where I do get offered a lot of things, but frankly, the majority of the things I get offered I'm not really interested in doing. I want to do the things that I have to fight for.

The advice I give, no matter male or female, is not being afraid to step outside your comfort zone and think more long-term about your career than maybe the next year.

I've always been very ambitious, and I always knew that I wanted something else. Cuba was a good start, but I knew I wasn't going to develop a real career, and I wanted to get closer to filmmakers that I wanted to work with.