Ellie Kendrick Quotes

One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.

I'd love to do more action stuff, in the future.

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

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

I love comics work, and I hope I never stop doing it. But at the same time, I have my own law practice that I've built up over quite a while - it's been more than a decade that I've spent building that business - so it seems a little premature to just shut it down after nine months of working at a high level in comics. We'll see.

Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.

I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting.

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon.

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

I'm a big girl. I prioritize. I want to be acting, I want to be singing, but there will be time for that.

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

I'm really focused and committed to teaching now. Maybe when I'm about 30, which is in 10 years, I would like to consider doing something like speech therapy. That's what I really would like to do. I could go and do that now but it's not my drive at the moment. My drive is acting right now.

A family is definitely in my future, but I have no idea when. I don't know how people fit it in with an acting career, but they do. Katherine Parkinson is a great example of that, so I'll have to ask her.

I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

When we go out to the university, the professors always say, 'Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,' and I say, 'Gee, we're lucky if we have a year plan.'

I work hard and try to combine a demanding career with motherhood.

I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating.

I want to complete my MBA but don't know when I will find time from my cricket schedule.

I just don't really think of career. I've never been driven by career.

I would like to balance my career, do meaningful cinema and also do fluff films.

I've always said I'm gonna work the road as hard as I can 'til I'm 50, then I might slow down a little bit.

I always wanted to be an actress, but my parents were adamant that I complete my studies first before I take up acting.

I am too ambitious to become a house husband.

I encourage others to choose a career they are passionate about and can do for the rest of their lives.