Professional Doubts Quotes

Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

I always loved films, and when I decided to go to film school, it was with the excuse that I would go into making commercials, because that would be a proper profession, and people wouldn't think I was crazy.

I sometimes feel like I should be in the hotel business.

When I decided to work with Krishna Vamsi, people around me were apprehensive about my decision. They warned me that I shouldn't work with an unsuccessful director.

Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

When you start out in the industry and things are tough, and you're not really making money, you question yourself: should I give up?

When 'Frozen River' started to get really big, I was four months pregnant. So when these agents and directors wanted to meet me, I was coming in pregnant, and people didn't really take me seriously. They thought, 'This woman is not going to shoot another movie again. She's going to become a mom, and that's what happens.' But that was not the case.

You don't have to be in our industry to have a panic attack about your career when you're pregnant. Even if you're a lawyer, you can think, 'I'm scared to take time off because I don't want to get passed by.'

I don't want to be a coach. I see how hard that is.

I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.

As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.

A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect.

I vividly remember early on in my career when I was eight months pregnant, working literally around the clock, and worrying that each trip to the restroom or my need to catch the occasional catnap was causing my colleagues to question whether I could keep up.

After 'Ra.One,' 'Cash,' 'Tum Bin 2' did not work, I almost lost my confidence as a director.

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.

When I read the first 'Sharknado' movie, I thought it was terrible. I told my wife that I couldn't do this movie, that it would be the end of my career.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.