Marsai Martin Quotes

I have always worked to start.

I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!

I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

You have to take control of your own career.

I always wanted to find my voice and claim my tone, but I was doing it through the steps of being a TV writer. I had the executive producer title. I was running the room.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

You know what, I didn't see myself being an executive producer.

I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.'

I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.

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.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.

Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.