Giovanni Ribisi Quotes

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

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

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.

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

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

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.

Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

You don't have to force your career to happen all at once.

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.

My whole mission is to have a long, interesting career, not a short spiky one.

Ultimately, I want a career where I get to try as many things out as I can.

I just want to be at the best place possible to ensure that I really kick on in my career, that I constantly have challenges, because in football, you don't have long. It's easy to become complacent when game time comes so easily, and you're doing so well.

I always found new challenges in my career.

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

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.