Cilla Black Quotes

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

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

My career is just kind of crazy.

My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.

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

The running thread of my career has been different scripts.

You never know the way your career takes.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

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

The different parts of my career seemed to take part in different rooms, albeit in the same house. It was just the way things were and I didn't actually think much about it at the time.

The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

You have to take control of your own career.

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

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.

The career stuff is for business people.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.