Dennis Crowley Quotes

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

Your post-college years should be an exploratory time in your professional life. From your early twenties and on into your early thirties, you should feel free to explore your professional prospects. Keep an open mind, and don't expect to get everything right straight out of the gate. Be prepared to start over once or twice.

I think I made the wrong career choice

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

Honestly, six months before getting 'Orange Is the New Black,' I remember telling my manager I was done.

I think that there have definitely been points when I've had to fight to move my career in a different direction. I think, 2012, I did a few movies that touched on a darker side, and those are movies I'd been wanting to make and stories I'd been wanting to tell for a while. So I think it definitely takes work to move genres.

I was never afraid of taking the wrong job because maybe it would hurt me. I was more interested in the experience.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

I don't play for job security.

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'd had a variety of jobs - shop assistant, writer of children's magazines - but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite an uninformed sports journalist so I might have stuck with that, but I would never have been very good at it.

I just survived a Disney career without singing. I don't want to, like, fall back in. I feel like I escaped, so if we could avoid it for as long as possible, that would be great.

I always found new challenges in my career.

When work starts feeling too comfortable, fire yourself; go get another job.

Be willing to take on career risks.

I left my job as an editorial assistant with Katie Couric at CBS to start our company. I think Katie has said being at CBS was the worst time in her career. They were cutting back their news and interactive budget. I just had this very distinct feeling that I wasn't in the spring of something: I was in the late fall.

I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change...I can't be the candy queen forever.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

Another occupation might have been better.