Graham Phillips Quotes

I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.

I'm not at the place in my career necessarily where I'm like offered every role.

I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

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

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.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

But I want to do good work, after this series.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career.

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

David Moyes was one who, at a certain crossroads in my career, he was there. And since then, I've kicked on. That's why he played such a big role in my career.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.

A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.

When you want a raise, you're not only going in saying: 'I want more money.' You're going in and saying: 'Here's what I want out of my career. Here's what I accomplished. Here's what I said I was going to do. Here's what I've done. Not only do I deserve more money, but I want to get to here on my career.'

I just want a really varied career, and just to keep going, really.

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.