Cathy Engelbert Quotes

I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what's in front of me, and serendipity steps in.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

I'm ready to work and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine.

I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

It's as important to sell yourselves as much as the service. The business model's going to change 50 times, and the market's going to change, but you need to convince that investor that you are smart enough and excited enough about the opportunity that you'll figure it out.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it.

The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

I don't really have a three-year plan or a five-year plan. I don't know what's next, and that's what I find quite exciting. I dig it.

I tried working with the best of directors and producers. I tried being selective, but things didn't work out. Now, I am open to working with anybody and everybody who is good. Or I'll try to make it good. That suits me.

As far as what teams need and what I need, I'm open to anything a team has to say about how they envision me in their future.

I have never been choosy throughout my career.

I am ready to do any kind of role.

I didn't go onto 'The Voice' thinking I was going to go country. I went into it with an open mind and thought whatever happens, happens.

Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.

I kind of feel the career chose me. My motto has always been, 'Go where I'm wanted.'

People sometimes say, "What is your dream role?" I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

I've never seen a successful person who wasn't flexible, who didn't have a certain degree of flexibility. You have to show a degree of flexibility.

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

Never say never! I'm open to trying new things.

Doing business is all about providing a good product or service to your customers. A good businessman is he who knows that what is successful today may not be so tomorrow. Technology changes so fast, and so do people's needs and wants. That's why it would do well for a businessman to know how to adapt to change. He must constantly reinvent the business, or it won't last.

Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.