David Lindsay-Abaire Quotes

I always have looked for the best challenge, I guess, that I could take on. I haven't been producing my own work or anything like that, so I've taken the jobs that look most interesting that come my way.

I don't play for job security.

I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

You can hit the proverbial roof at certain areas in the industry unless you venture out. And I never really set out in my career to stay in one place. I wanted to go out and try new things. Luckily, I've had that opportunity.

I'm willing to role the dice with my career to be different.

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.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.

I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.

I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.

I gave up the idea of having a career when I was 24. Sounds glamorous, but I've been doing things since then, and part of those adventures was to make films because I realised I was actually quite good at it and I enjoyed it.

There's not anyone in particular I'd like to work with. I just want to continue doing work that I have a passion for.