Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes

I always found new challenges in my career.

I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.

I don't think anyone wants to be in a role forever.

In reality, I'm very restless, and I get bored very easily. It's the same with my career: I need to outperform myself with every film.

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

I would leave the industry in a moment if I thought I was going to get stuck in one particular area of it.

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.

I think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.

I just want a really varied career, and just to keep going, really.

I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.

I feel like if you're stuck doing the same thing your whole career you've got to be doing something wrong. Unless you're getting great results from it or you're just comfortable in that spot.

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

When I left Leipzig I was thinking about my next step, and I want to stand in front of a new team, new language, to get developed personally and in my view of football. That's why I made the decision to come to Southampton.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

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.

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 would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

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.

Once a waitress, always a waitress.

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 know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.

Luckily, I'm doing other things besides just modeling, because frankly, I'm a little bored with it.

I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.