Holly Hunter Quotes

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

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder.

The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.

When I first got started I had no idea my career would last as long as it did.

I don't know where I'm at in my career and I don't really keep track of that or care about that.

I've had a lot of starts and stops as far as my career is concerned, but I think what I am able to do is to put things into perspective.

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

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.

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.

Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.

I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.

You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.

The notion of 'building a career' had never been heard or dreamed of when I was young.

I swear to God, my career is like this weird origami thing.

I don't really know how to build a career or what to do. But I have the instinct to keep doing different things so people can see different things.

Your post-college years should be an exploratory time in your professional life. From your early twenties and on into your early thirties, you should feel free to explore your professional prospects. Keep an open mind, and don't expect to get everything right straight out of the gate. Be prepared to start over once or twice.