Jack Gleeson Quotes

I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited.

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

I don't know what I am doing tomorrow. But I know one thing for sure: the day I stop enjoying my work, I will pack up and leave.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.

That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you develop your preferences as a person. Knowing what you like will make you more confident. And then you'll stand out.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.

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.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.

People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

I don't have a career. I have a life.