Joe Perry Quotes

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

You get to a certain point in your life and you think you can do it all. And then you do do it all, and then you have to top yourself.

What goes up must come down; I'm not going to be in 'Hamilton' forever. Everything I work on won't have this kind of success.

You're as good as your next game, not your previous, so I'll focus on the next one.

You never really get a chance to sit back and look at where you are or what you've done. If you stop working, you're gonna get overtaken quickly. You can't really take your foot off the gas - until you decide to pack it in.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.

I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

Early in my career, I was really spoiled with a beautiful project. I got such a good start that I thought, 'Why would I ever take a step back?' Why would I take on something that wasn't meaningful - to me, if nobody else - and powerful and groundbreaking?

I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work.

QVC has been very good to me.

Sometimes, when the material is really good, you put expectations on yourself to make it the best possible show. You're not just serving up the regular hash and doing your job and going home.

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.

My goal has always been to make a living and to have the respect of my peers. It's never been about stardom. It's about a good and challenging part.