Quotes about "Work & Career"

I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know? ”

I used to exercise an hour every day - no excuses. I live in absolutes: I either exercise every day, or I let myself off the hook. I'm trying to find that balance of working out three or four days a week and sticking to it. ”

I knew that my career in dance would come to an end at some point, and transitioning into a career in fitness was a natural progression. ”

It's changed the landscape of my career without a doubt. 'Deadwood' started to do that, but then 'Breaking Bad' really shifted everything for me. ”

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting. ”

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman. ”

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear. ”

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not. ”

In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another. ”

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way. ”