Romola Garai Quotes

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

I think if you start to think too much about things that are completely out of control, it will just drive you crazy as an actor.

I have a very optimistic view of my future right now. I'm very excited to see where it goes, but I try not to make plans just because I know how unpredictable life can be. Especially the life of an actor, and especially the life of an actor on 'Glee.' I just want to be happy and healthy and surrounded by people I love, as cheesy as it sounds.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

We're only human beings and cannot always be in control of our lives.

I hate to predict my future. I never really thought I would be a head coach at 34 years old. I never thought I would be traded to Tampa. I never even really thought I would be fired, even though I probably deserved it. I try not to predict things.

It was always that I finished one movie and then had no idea what I was doing. I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.

Don't get too set on becoming an actor at an early age. I think that's where some people get into trouble. Acting becomes their life. I don't want that.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real.

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.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life - just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

If you had asked me, did I have everything nailed down and wired about what I wanted to do, and was I following some real plan? No. In fact, by the time I was in my mid-20s or even late-20s, and I was still in the law firm, I really was starting to get a little nervous that I didn't know what I was going to do.

I would worry that one morning I would wake up and be told that I can't compete any more.

I've realized that I can't control what the hell everyone else is gonna do. People are crazy. People want different things.

You don't know where your career is going to take you. It might all go wrong and I might never play in a Masters again. So it's important to keep things real.

Everyone has ups and downs. You can't always get exciting roles.