Michelle Monaghan Quotes

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

I'm patient when it comes to my career, which is unlike me, but there are no stars in my eyes.

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

What I learned, more than anything, was that you can't have it all balanced perfectly at any one time. When I was young, it was much more balanced toward work. When I had my children, it was much more balanced toward love and family, and I didn't get a lot of work done. So you can't ask of it to be perfectly balanced at any time, but your hope is, before you die, you've somehow had each of those spheres come to life. That's probably more important than success in any one of those spheres alone.

I think a lot of people try to plan things in their career. They feel like, If I don't get this done by the time I'm thirty, everything's over. But I've worked with a lot of people whose careers shot to the top later in life.

My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to me, they look at me and just roll their eyes.

But everything that I did starting out, every job that I had, I haven't regretted any of them. They've all been informative, interesting in one way or another. With a career, I think there's this idea that you're just trying to get somewhere. It's like, "Oh, okay, let's keep going, because if I do this, I can get this, I get this, this." It wasn't that way. I did what I wanted to do when it was in front of me, and I'm trying to continue to do that.

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

I think, certainly, in history, if you look back, a lot of people would go through their careers, build a business, or be a doctor, lawyer, and then they would go and do public service later on in their careers.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

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 don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.

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

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.