David Byrne Quotes

In the marathon obstacle course of a career, it's just good to have all the stats on paper for why you're not only a team player but also why it makes sense to support you in the projects you want to do - because you've made so much damned money for the studio.

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.

I think, at some point, all of us - I'm gonna speak personally, not for everybody else - you're gonna feel like a one-trick pony, and you might even be a one-trick pony. But at some point, if it's a really good trick, everybody's still gonna appreciate it.

I had a wonderful and very successful career in New York and had the privilege of working with some of the best editors and publishers in the business.

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

I tell people in their careers, 'Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.'

The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

I am capable of directing, and I am good at that. In order to have longevity as actors, you have to keep changing it up a bit; you have to bring other talents to the table. I want this to be another feather in my cap instead of replacing what I already have.

My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.

But I want to do good work, after this series.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

Right now in my career, it's like I'm having more fun than I've ever had, so it's kind of like, 'Man, I can't stop now.'

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

And I'm proud of what I do as a professional, too.

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

Early in my career, I was really spoiled with a beautiful project. I got such a good start that I thought, 'Why would I ever take a step back?' Why would I take on something that wasn't meaningful - to me, if nobody else - and powerful and groundbreaking?

There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work.

This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.