Career Plateau Quotes

After I did 'Mr. Show,' I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was like, wow, I'm 27 and I was already on this iconic show, and now I can just coast. But no one likes coasting, because you have to fill your day with stuff.

My career started slowly and then tapered off.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I'm sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.

Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.

A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.

Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are "stuck" and can go no further.

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

There is a time in every actor's life when he has to face the self-created hurdle after he starts getting bored of work and suddenly realises that he is left behind.

I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic.

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

In the initial stages of my career, I was actually hiding behind a mask to hide who I was, but I was getting frustrated. I wasn't getting better bookings; I wasn't competing at bigger events.

Modeling will slow down no matter who you are.

When television emerged, it opened up many avenues for actors like me, but after a point, it also became very limiting.

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

I was obviously in NXT for a while and had some success, but then I found myself lurking in the shadows and not really doing much.

For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.