Young Professional Quotes

I've been working for, like, 10 years now, which is a very strange thing to say when you're 23.

I started at 'The Post' as an intern in 2000 right after I got out of college.

I'm glad this whole success thing is happening now. I can't even imagine a 23-year-old Leslie in this position.

I was already blessed to be doing what I have always wanted at 17 - I was an actress.

Straight out of college, I worked at the Conservative Party but that was just a couple of years.

Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.

Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

At the beginning of my career, I was nervous to talk. I was just a very young girl. You don't want to upset anyone or frustrate anyone - you just want to work.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Even at 22, you just want a manager to trust you.

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.

Obviously, I'm at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I'm 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you're a prospect. And that's what I am right now in Europe. I'm a prospect. I'm not a seasoned veteran.

I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

At 26, I was single, living in Manhattan, and working as a journalist at 'Vanity Fair.' I was Carrie Bradshaw... in sensible shoes.

As a young aspiring journalist, I felt I was put into a box.

I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.

I used to go into rooms of older executives and try to pitch talk show ideas and when I was writing as a journalist I would pitch ideas for my articles and I definitely understand that excitement of a pitch and what that is to be young and a woman and trying to make your voice heard.

I had to get used to seeing Samantha Bee around. I had to get used to seeing Jon, like, getting a bagel, and to John Oliver, and all these people whom I had seen on TV. Colbert would sometimes drop by. I had to get used to being a part of this multiple-Emmy-winning machine and being this 22-year-old black girl who was really green.