M. J. Rose Quotes

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

I no longer say I'm unemployed. I say I'm unemployable. It's different. An unemployed suggests at a certain point in the future, you might be employed. That's not the case with me. I'm unemployable, and unfortunately, that's one of the bits of the web, in particular of Google.

During childbearing years, changing jobs - even for a fundamentally better gig - can be a very bad idea. Those prime childbearing years - mid-twenties to early forties - overlap precisely with prime professional years. This is when employees are most attractive to new employers, when they should be able to zip up ladders with the most alacrity.

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

When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today, and it's called the Internet.

In your career, you must be so careful; otherwise, you get caught in a particular image, and it's hard to break.

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

Work changes over time, as you change and the world changes.

Nobody asked you to flip burgers for the rest of your life.

I would love to stay at SNL forever. But you can't stay in the same place. People think you're a loser.

I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.

I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media.

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.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

I am hoping for a long career.

People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a character. I'm just not that precious.

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.

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.

The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.

I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.

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.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.