Career Instinct Quotes

My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.

When people asked me, 'What are you going to do?' I'd say, 'I'm going to be an actor,' without really thinking about it. And I started acting without really thinking about it. I only thought about it properly a bit later.

I've made a career of being a contrarian. If I'm going to work with Tom Cruise, it's my instinct to be like, 'Well, I'm going to do the anti-Tom Cruise movie.'

I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.

I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.

I have never planned my career. I never wanted to be an actress. Films were an instinctive step, just like modelling and television.

Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.

My career wasn't planned, never had any targets. I just go by my instincts, and I think I am doing good work.

I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.