Gary Oldman Quotes

If you are a manager who is in your first or second job, the big worry would be where is your next job coming from, but I'm not in that position.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

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 think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

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

There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

I always said the whole time all I was waiting for was an opportunity and a chance to get my foot in the door.

You never know the way your career takes.

You don't choose. I just go where the work is.

You have to take control of your own career.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

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.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.