Career Independence Quotes

With my career, everything I do is me. There's no one that handles telling me what I should be about or how I should dress or anything. I'm hands on with absolutely everything. When I'm writing a song, I'm already thinking of the visual for the song and I'm already thinking of what I'm going to wear in that visual and what I'm going to wear when I perform. It all goes hand in hand. Everything I do is just me expressing different sides of myself.

I like working, and I like the freedom where all that matters is my work.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

I'm really happy to be on the cover as a strong female who has created her own career.

It's very important that your parents have careers of their own. When the kid becomes the breadwinner of the household, that's when you have problems.

I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.

You can't run your career on the basis of what someone else does.

I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.

The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

I guess I don't really let the stress of my family weigh on my career, weigh on my options anymore, which I think we all need freedom from.

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.

I deliberately try to carry a different perception of myself as opposed to my father's. I respect my dad and his body of work, but I can't give him credit for what I am today. As a person, I give my parents full credit; career-wise, no.

I'm always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.

I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself. But then on the other hand, the way I do my work, I always try to only completely focus on my work, so when I do my work I'm only interested in my character. So I don't have an idea of what it means for my career. So this is why I don't feel like I need to be discovered, because I feel like even without being discovered, I will be fine.

When we first started we felt something changing in terms of work, and we felt it was a global shift. People were taking control of their future, not just in terms of making money. They wanted to control their own destiny.

A lot of people do what their families do. Imagine if everyone in the family is a doctor and they decide to become an actor. Then people have to make those choices for themselves and their art and what they believe in.

I want to end my career on my terms, not on what people think I should do.