Paul Bettany Quotes

I have never been interested in specific roles.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

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

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

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

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

I don't really have any strategy for my career.

I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.

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

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.

I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.

I liked my old job better.

I don't think I've ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role - I just see what comes up.

I don't necessarily think that when I graduated college, I had a plan to work at an ad agency. I had a plan in terms of getting the best job I could, like, just whatever normal job.

If I want another job, I'll get one. I haven't set a date of when to stop managing.

I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job.

The industry is big, and if I get an interesting role, I will take it up.

You don't have to start with your dream job, and your idea of what the dream job might be will change during a working life that will have its share of ups and downs, setbacks and advances.