Paul Bettany Quotes

I know a lot of actors have all these expectations and believe that one thing should lead to another thing, and that's probably the right way to build a career. I don't know what's wrong with me - I just don't think like that!

I'm just confident about where my career is headed.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

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

I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

I don't really think in career terms.

I suppose, in a way, one could say I may be less interested in my career than the audience is. Not to mean that I'm disinterested in my career, but I don't see it in terms of one stepping stone or, 'Now I'm going to go into my blue phase,' or what have you.

Career is a mindset. The wrong mindset. Career is linear. Especially when you are trapped in the TV or film world. The next thing you do has always got to be bigger, or it is perceived as a failure.

I treat my career like it just happened yesterday.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.

I'd like to think that every job and every step I've taken progressed more and more toward the career that I've wanted to have.

Everybody has a different goal and a way of planning his/her career.

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.

Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.

I don't feel like my career path has changed.

I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.