David Jason Quotes

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

I don't have any desire to ever act again full time.

If I'm still acting at 46, I'll be surprised.

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.

Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't you?

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.

I'm an actress, not a celebrity.

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.