Brett Favre Quotes

As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.

Earlier in my career, a lot of guys wanted individual numbers and to do well individually.

To make a name for myself, I feel it's important to do that before I go anywhere else. Impact have given me the platform and the exposure to do that.

When people are talking about a player to come and take your place, you take it personally because it's your position.

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

My whole life, I've never worried about being No. 1, because that's the guy they've got to get out of there.

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

I mean, they're threatening - my career is over. You know, everything I've worked so hard. I've worked extremely hard since about 17 years old, you know, as a White House intern on up.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied: to want more and know that what is done is done. That was his way of seeing the game. You've done it, now move on. People might say, 'Well, when can you enjoy it?' But it worked for me because, in the game, you need to be on your toes.

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.

The whole idea is you can't sit around and do nothing. You have to get up and start living one day at a time. That's what I did my entire career. You can't sit around and say, 'Oh, poor me. Nobody likes me. Nobody is giving me a job.' You have to get up and go. If you sit at home and do nothing, that is what is going to happen.

I was always telling myself I could handle a more complex role, I could handle something bigger and more interesting than the work I was doing. But I wasn't demanding that of myself. At a certain point, I realized it was never going to come my way unless I started taking more control of it. That's what I realized I had to do.

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I was never lined up outside of my bosses office saying 'Give me an opportunity; there's not a woman in primetime'... I was just trying to be so good they couldn't ignore me.

Any time you have a dream job of where you want to work, it's so incredible, and I don't think that people realize it could go away.

The competition to get above the rest and be the lead commentator, or whatever you want to call it, is much fiercer than it was when I was starting out. By the same token, there were not as many jobs going back then, so to get one was an achievement in itself.

Having a long career with real lasting power has always been a goal.

I wish I had not believed that my work would speak for itself; the working world requires a bit more than that.

Each person has a way to promote their fight. Each person has a way to try to create opportunity in their career.