Lizz Winstead Quotes

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

I'm very proud of 'Gavin and Stacey,' but I think I have to write something else even to start to consider myself a writer. Just because you do something once, it doesn't mean that's who you are. I played football last night; it doesn't mean I'm a footballer.

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.'

I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.

I didn't start my career or, really, my life before I came to Florida.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't...not anymore...consider fame and fortune my career. I'm not a star. I'm an actor. So in a way, what I want to do as an actor, I would consider good for my career. Does that make sense?

I'm not at the point in my career where I want to rebuild.

I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be.

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.

I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.

I can't speak for other photographers, but the photographers who went forward strongly when the so-called "official" part of their career ended, to me, were those who had taught. Teaching enriches and enlivens one's work.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

I'm sure it's there traced along my career. I'm sure it is in most actresses' careers.

I switched up so that I could work 12-hour shifts at the firm on the weekends so I could have days free to paint. But it was almost like I had a secret life, because I wasn't showing any of my work. It was just in my house. In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows. Suddenly I sort of "came out" as an artist.

You must develop a sense of what you can contribute that goes beyond 1 company or organization. A career path today will likely involve moving from organization to organization, creating a picture of rising circles, rather than a vertical ladder. In fact, a vertical rise within one organization will very likely move you away from your strongest areas of competence.

It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.

My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me that being a writer could be a romantic and adventurous position. Previously, I had thought I would be a tennis pro, giving lessons at a local club. I thought that would be a good life, and it might have been.

I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.

My career has kind of taken on a life of its own.

When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.