Kimberly Elise Quotes

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

My decision to leave Impact had nothing to with their business or finances and everything with me wanting to challenge myself to something new.

When work starts feeling too comfortable, fire yourself; go get another job.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

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

When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.

Some players have ambitions, and therefore, they leave and want to experience something new, you know.

From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

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.

After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences.

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

When I made the decision to stop working regionally and just focus on being in New York, part of the reason that instigated that choice was a desire to work on new plays and know what it was to originate a part.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.