Shaheer Sheikh Quotes

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.

Basically, I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well, it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after 'Deadly Blessing' and 'Swamp Thing,' that's what happened.

I can't think of any actor who doesn't have a flop in his career.

'High Stakes' was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at all, and I suspected she was soft-pedalling the latter possibility. The effect of a truly execrable adaptation is worse than neutral. The stink rubs off.

'Saw' was good and bad. It was good in that it gave me a career start, but it was also negative in that it really marginalized me as a filmmaker.

I don't know if there were many pros for me playing early. I feel like I dug myself a pretty deep hole that rookie year.

I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made.

When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.

I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.

I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.