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I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a 'career builder.' I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with 'Caprica,' the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.

— Eric Stoltz

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.

— Nat Wolff

I really feel that the thing that I love the most about my career is that it is so eclectic. You know, I've gone from so many genres and so many different mediums and I love that most - that people have always given me the chance to do vastly different things.

— Katie Finneran

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

— Carl Sandburg

I love all kinds of stories and movies, and I did work hard to get through to the creative community and studio executives that I could work in a number of different genres and tones.

— Ron Howard

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

— Nicholas Stern

My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved.

— Max von Essen

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

— Yoko Ono

Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.

— Tom Hardy

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

✗Opposing Perspectives

In terms of negotiating a career - I've always grown up being an insider and an outsider to different worlds, across different classes and cultures, so I have always naturally liked making films or music that puts things in unexpected places.

— Riz Ahmed