Gabriella Wilde Quotes

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

For some actors, their star shines brightly and fizzles out. My star doesn't shine that brightly, but it buzzes along. Hopefully, that means it will last longer.

The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.

Jessica Tandy. Nice company! And Ruth Gordon. They worked all along. She didn't really get any big star recognition until Driving Miss Daisy. So what if it takes me that long? Slow and steady wins the race, right? Better a tortoise than a hare.

I thought, 'Wow, if we could have a career that was five or six years long, that would be fantastic.' And, of course, never even thinking it would still be something I'd be doing in 45 years.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Character actors have a long shelf life.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

Slow but steady wins the race.

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Plodding wins the race.

I graduated college in 1983, so that's 32 years, and all I've done for a living is act or commercials or voiceovers. So I have nothing to complain about.

I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride to the top quickly, you're liable to fall as quickly. Take your time. It's a long journey ahead of you as an artist. There's nowhere that you're supposed to be other than right now living inside of your art.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

'Doctor Who' would be overnight fame that would last for three years, and then what? I'm in this for the long term.

To me, I didn't think of acting as being a young thing only.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.