Julie Benz Quotes

The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums.

It's not my goal to make so many movies. It's just sort of a natural process, and I'm just doing my job. And I'm not tied to any genre; I'm willing to do anything. I just keep going.

Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.

I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.

Over the years, I have worked professionally as a musician, photographer, and writer. I've been able to earn my living in other ways, but I always knew I'd come back to acting.

If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book for Lloyd Axworthy. I've worked in coffee shops. I've sold clothes. I've hosted TV shows, and now I'm acting.

I'm an actor. I can't afford to have a type. I love to mix it up.

I wholeheartedly believe that super heroes can play in virtually any storytelling genre.

I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.

I don't have a preferred medium of work, but like all actors, I do like to move from one to the other if possible.

I didn't take up 'Chinnanchiru Kiliye' thinking I should continue on these lines from now on.

My career has taken so many directions.

I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist is fluid. If you look at a painter's work, a lot of times, it's similar in style, but other times - over even a year's period - it can change so much. I'm just going with the flow.

I already am very satisfied by my career. It has been long, diverse and hugely rewarding.

One of the amazing things about acting now is that you can try different things and have choices.

I used to be an actor, I used to be a journalist and I used to be a publicist. I know how all these people think.

Most stabilizing part of my career is that I have done all genres. I hate classification.

The beauty of my job is I do all different kinds of film directing, not just surf films anymore. And I do stuff from commercials to short films to working on feature films, and none of it is based from where I live. It's all based elsewhere, so I can live anywhere and commute to where I need to go.

I really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting. And I just want more interesting jobs. I just want to keep doing stuff that's different, rather than saying, "Okay, I've become known for this, and I'll just do this from now on." If I feel like I've done this one thing, I never want to do it again. I want to do something totally different.

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

I'm so grateful. I worked on some really quality projects as a kid and I was really lucky for the opportunities I got.

I'm living such a lucky and blessed life and I'm trying my best to deserve it.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

It's just nice to do something a bit different, and I guess when you're an actor, you have the license to do that.

I want to do roles that are fun and challenging and I want to try different things. I don't want to keep doing Monster's Ball over and over and over again. I want to keep doing my career the way that I was doing it before I won the Oscar.