Demetri Martin Quotes

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.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

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 kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

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

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.

I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.

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

After law school, I put on my power suit and worked at a series of law firms. By the time I was at my third in six years, it dawned on me that a traditional law job wasn't for me.

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

I did engineering, and when people asked me my career plans, I used to say I would do an MBA.

Another occupation might have been better.

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

After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.