Gareth Barry Quotes

As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.

Everyone needs an opportunity in life. I was given an opportunity as a manager, and you try and take it.

There are more non-committee chairmen than there are committee chairmen. And the non-committee chairmen want to be chairmen some day. They will not eliminate term limits on existing committee chairmen.

The people who give themselves up to manual labor are never promoted to public offices.

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start.

I'm in that lucky percentile where I can worry about how I want to shape my career. That's a wonderful place to be.

The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?

One of the first big agencies that represented me, my point person there - this was over 10 years ago, so it's no one who I work with now or have worked with recently - but he told me that I was too ambitious.

The kind of career that I want is not easy as a lady to manifest, because everyone wants a lady to be likable.

I have never had a plan when it comes to my career: America came to me with an opportunity.

There's a lot of great directors that I want to work with, but as soon as I mention them, I never get a chance to work with them.

After 'Broadcast News,' I could have played that same part, but I didn't want to. So I didn't follow it up with a hit.

It has been most rewarding to work in St. Louis, California, and New York and watch the people there grow and be promoted and go off to other opportunities and positions of responsibility.

I'm only 20; you've got your whole career ahead of you. I'm just focused on playing for West Ham and playing with a smile on my face and enjoying it.

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

As far as what teams need and what I need, I'm open to anything a team has to say about how they envision me in their future.

I'm just confident about where my career is headed.

At some point or another, everyone has felt unseen and unheard and marginalized.

Some players have ambitions, and therefore, they leave and want to experience something new, you know.

In my head, I felt if I'd stayed at City and got a chance, I could have done a good job. It was made clear that wasn't going to happen, though.

I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.

I have got two paths - one to go into the media, the other to go into coaching and management. I have got offers from both.

I have no ambition to be a technical director or TV pundit.