Dave Martinez Quotes

I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.

Each step of the way, I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice,' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken.

That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you develop your preferences as a person. Knowing what you like will make you more confident. And then you'll stand out.

I learn lessons with every interview I give.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better.

I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.

The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.

I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality.

I still have moments when I close myself in, but I wouldn't be on the path that I am with the career that I've had if I didn't have a deep understanding of the sense of my inner freedom.

My advice to people who've lost their job: go back to the things that made you from the start.

I just don't spend maybe enough time figuring out my place. Maybe I do in the world, but not so much in Hollywood.

I'm maturing as a person and as a player.

My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

If you're not learning as a human, growing as a human, you can't grow as an actor. You're just churning things you've already thought.