Cathy Engelbert Quotes

I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

It's depressing that ambition and feminism have become almost dirty words for working women. But, there is no reason that they should be and, increasingly, I am struck by how the next generation is challenging conceptions of what it means to be successful at work.

I suppose, unconsciously, I used all my wives to further my journey up the ladder.

When I finished law school, I had a 10-year plan. My plan was to go to a law firm, fall madly in love, have a baby by the time I was 30, make partner, and live happily ever after.

I always grapple with myself, from job to job, 'Is this going to make an impact in some way?'

We launched our #WomenWhoWork initiative to show the world what today's modern, professional women really look like. They're invested in their careers, but they're also passionate about priorities outside the office.

I want to maximize my potential. And when I talk about that, don't get me wrong - I'm not talking about just making money.

I think, as a woman in action in the business, you would be stupid not to express interest. Any female action role that presents itself as an opportunity I would throw myself at!

I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

As a CEO, I want to show women that there are no limits to what they can achieve, whether through entrepreneurship, government, science or any path they choose, and there is plenty of room for women at the top.

After 'Broadcast News,' I could have played that same part, but I didn't want to. So I didn't follow it up with a hit.

Right after college, I was trying to figure out what to do. Teach? Act? Model? Do PR for the deaf community? And now I'm doing all I dreamed of and more.

I hope Indian parents will allow girls to choose their own destiny.

When people ask what my ambitions are for the rest of my career, I always say that I live in the present.

I would say that we all - in whatever world we're in, whatever your occupation is, we all have a path to walk. We all have struggles.

I want my girls to grow up learning that it is important their mum worked like a man.

It's been an amazing journey. I've been pursuing a career in this industry for a long time, so when I was finally given an opportunity, I didn't take it for granted.

I have received so many letters, messages, emails, testimonies of women whom I meet in international conferences, wherever it may be, who tell me, 'It's great that you have balanced life and work so successfully.' I now think I have underestimated that, the 'role model' aspect of my life, I must say.

I feel one should do things which pleases them, and my progression into super model then to an actress and now to an entrepreneur is based on this.

When women apply for a job, we ask ourselves, 'Am I qualified? Do I have the experience? Do I have the education? Do I have the abilities?' When a man looks at that job, he thinks, 'How much does it pay?' We need to stop second-guessing our abilities. We need to stand up and make ourselves heard.

A lot of women feel like they put their ambitions on hold sometimes because they do hold down the household and that's something that has to change.

I didn't want to be the 40-year-old still on MTV doing 'Real World.' I loved the show. I loved the people on it, but I had a different set of goals.