Riz Ahmed Quotes

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.

I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

The best way to advance in a career is to get great results while working with people.

Ambitious parents need more flexibility in how, where, and when they work, including the ability to work less or even not at all for a period. Equally important, they will need employers … who don’t view this kind of a zig-zag career path as a lack of commitment or professionalism.

I've been really lucky that I've kind of gotten to flow from project to project, because I find it's very important that when you're on a project, you are so invested in it.

My career may look bizarre to some, but I have very strong reasons for doing every single job I've done.

To get to world-class, don't miss any opportunity to leverage the learning/insights/experiences of the people you meet. Because we really do become our conversations.

I started my career, actually, maybe the first 10, 11 years, playing the bad boyfriend with the gun. And I got ill with that and moved on, for some reason, to playing cops all the time.

I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there.

I always tell other actors that work begets work. You never know where your next job is going to lead you, down the road.

I love connected culture.

As an employee, you can't work for someone forever.

Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.

After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.

I've tried to stick with the same people from when my career started to today. The more people you add around you, the more distractions you have, and that's the last thing I need.

I've always learned a lot, I've always played different roles, and I will continue to do so.

I got an opportunity to do varied roles so early in my career.

You can hit the proverbial roof at certain areas in the industry unless you venture out. And I never really set out in my career to stay in one place. I wanted to go out and try new things. Luckily, I've had that opportunity.

Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.

I've sort of overlapped every job that I've done, really.

People from my father's generation didn't have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.

It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.