Lynn Collins Quotes

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

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

'I' is bound to have an impact on my career.

There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.

Once a waitress, always a waitress.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

I tell people in their careers, 'Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.'

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

A little while ago, I had this realization that so much of my happiness depended on what my career was looking like at that time, and that's, like, death of happiness right there.

I was never afraid of taking the wrong job because maybe it would hurt me. I was more interested in the experience.

Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you're good. So work anywhere you can. That's why I've changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it's kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They're working.

I don't play for job security.

On a career level, I always advise people to look ahead and be open to changes in direction. That job that seems so good now can easily turn into a nightmare if you do not see the possible corners it can land you in.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

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

To make a name for myself, I feel it's important to do that before I go anywhere else. Impact have given me the platform and the exposure to do that.

At the beginning of my career before anything started propelling, I used to blow up everybody. I was trying to work with whoever got next.

I'm excited about developing as a Diva and finding where my place is in this company.

I enjoy my job. And I love the city of Chicago, and this organization - it gave me the start to my whole career.