Lauren Graham Quotes

If you don't start your career until thirty, that still gives you thirty-five years to make it professionally. If you can't make it in thirty-five years, you weren't going to make it in forty or forty-five.

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

With my career, considering my age and how much time I've been out... how much time I've got left, nobody knows.

Could I stay at Bayern my entire career? I'm not the type of person who looks that far ahead. I am setting short-term goals instead.

Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.

I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.

I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.

You can't model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

I know a lot of actors have all these expectations and believe that one thing should lead to another thing, and that's probably the right way to build a career. I don't know what's wrong with me - I just don't think like that!

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder.

I didn't really chart things out, career-wise.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

You want a career. You don't want to do a couple of good films and then your career is over.

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.