Career Limits Quotes

The reality is that players can't play forever.

I can't play football forever.

I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out.

I did as much as I could in Vancouver. You can only play so many ex-'Falcon Crest' sons in so many movies of the week before you burn out.

I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.

I cannot do more than two films at a time. I like to have a life besides films. That is very important to me.

If you're really good in the ring, there's no limits to what you can do in the WWE as a woman!

I don't want to coach too far into my 60s. By then, I'll be playing golf four or five times a week.

I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.

We want to have a life outside of Pearl Jam, too.

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me.

I'm perfectly happy to have the reputation as a comedian. I love comedies, I would love to be doing more comedies. But I also feel like I hit the limit on playing the girlfriend type in a lot of rom-coms that aren't actually rom-coms, but guy movies that happen to have girls in them.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.

It's not precisely that I'm not ambitious. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... much... to go on to the next level.

Nobody can have a career that lasts forever on radio.

In football, you have to look out for yourself and know when that ride is over. That extra inch after you've already got the first down - what's that going to get you? Not much.

I know that the greatest of actresses has about 20 good years of acting in her and that she will go on living for 30 or 40 years as a human being. So, the conclusion I have come to is that I can't make acting my whole life.

I have been approached to direct films, but I think everybody has their limits. For me, I want to focus all my energy and efforts on acting and give the best performance possible. For now, I am focusing on that. Who knows, in the future maybe I will change my mind.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away. I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again. I don't want to do this for the rest of my life. I don't. I don't even want to spend the rest of my youth doing this in this industry. There's so much more I want to discover.

I'm grateful I got the opportunity to do it because I know this now. If anybody ever asked me to do a daytime show again I would go no, no. I can't do that. Not because it's beneath me. It's above me. It's beyond my resources.

I don't think guys in TV should stay when it's time to leave.