Elaine Paige Quotes

I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.

If you are a manager who is in your first or second job, the big worry would be where is your next job coming from, but I'm not in that position.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

I don't know how I could plan my career.

Your first job can set the trajectory for the rest of your career.

My career needs to progress. Time's ticking.

I must say I have turned down several great companies, so I'd probably say I have to keep learning.

I never expected that I'd be doing as many jobs as I did. I know everybody says that, but I thought I'd be sat in my pants waiting for someone to ring me. Then maybe within five years I might get something.

I always focus on what is next in my career.

You never know the way your career takes.

I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

I've seen what can happen to an actor when he's just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it's ten years later, your career's happened, and you haven't had any control.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

Whether you're working in corporate America or you're a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - we're all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When 'Psych' ends, I will be looking for another job.

I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself.

You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.