David Henrie Quotes

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

The powers that technology and independent contracting give to workers enables them to take greater control of their careers to preserve work-life balance.

I don't want to take anything that's coming in for the sake of work. I want to choose carefully, as I have done since leaving 'EastEnders.'

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

I'm not of the mind where, 'It doesn't matter what you care about; you've got to have a safe reliable job and do the 9 to 5.' I obviously don't subscribe to that. There's nothing wrong with that, though, if that's what you want to do.

I could have continued being a speechwriter for as long as I wanted.

I think - for female or male, it is very challenging on the independent scene.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

Nobody asked you to flip burgers for the rest of your life.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.