Ansel Elgort Quotes

I think with anything career-related, there really is no rush.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.

There is absolutely no planning and strategising involved in my career graph.

I'm not sure if career can be planned.

I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

If you don't start your career until thirty, that still gives you thirty-five years to make it professionally. If you can't make it in thirty-five years, you weren't going to make it in forty or forty-five.

I've got goals I want to achieve in my career and I'm working towards them every day.

Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.

As you build your career, you know where you want to go. I'm definitely moving towards films. That's definitely a goal. I'm definitely going to put it out there.

I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.

I don't know where I'm at in my career and I don't really keep track of that or care about that.

I was a late bloomer on the career front.

When teachers would say, 'When you all graduate, you won't have anywhere to go' - I'm the type of person playing chess and thinking ahead. I thought that was a good question. Am I going to be winging it? I didn't want to be in that position, so I set myself up to go to college.

As a player I think you naturally think long term and think what is the schedule in the next year or so.

The advice I give, no matter male or female, is not being afraid to step outside your comfort zone and think more long-term about your career than maybe the next year.

You never know the way your career takes.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.