career fluctuations Quotes

For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.

The reality of a long-term career is that there are ups and downs.

Every actor or director has their ups and downs.

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

As an actor, your life is constant ups and downs. My friends and I joke that when a job ends and nothing is lined up, you have nothing to do for the rest of your life. You just ride that wave.

You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.

Life is very cyclical. And my career has been very-high-very-low, very-high-very-low, and I think it'll probably keep on rolling that way.

In any profession, there are always ups and downs.

That 'Rollercoaster' album cover was very prophetic in its own way. My career has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows.

I think players have ups and downs in their careers.

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

There are obviously peaks and valleys in everyone's career. This business can be a roller-coaster ride, and it's really hard to stay on top all the time. Very few people do.

My dad was one of the original members of the Groundlings, and I watched him as an actor have ups and downs, and I watched my mom as a casting director have ups and downs.

Acting careers are very interesting things. They come with a lot of ups and downs. You just have to ride the waves and bide your time during the lulls, and enjoy the high times when they're there.

Everybody - even huge movie stars - have downs. That's just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. My manager and I were saying, 'Let's remember that in 2013 we were soooo busy.' So whenever it is that we're not, maybe it'll come back again. Maybe it won't. But you've gotta love the ride.

As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.

Every footballer has his ups and downs.

I think all actors experience ups and downs.

There are always ups and down in every artiste's career.

My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.

To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress - who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood - and to watch fluctuations of ups and downs is difficult. She did mainly television, so I think I associated that with a life of inconsistency. As I've come into my own, I realize it has nothing to do with the medium.

A professional music career goes in starts and stops. Around 2000 I was doing a Broadway show and that was some real good energy.