Professional Endurance Quotes

I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

I love the idea of longevity in this career. But [producing] is not about, "Let me do this because this might happen 20 years down the line." Sleepwalking wasn't a vehicle for me, it was a film that pushed the ­envelope. I want to produce good stories, versus creating a niche where I can look after myself as an actor.

I've surprised a lot of people, including myself, with my longevity.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we're thinking, 'Really dude? Were still here!' and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you're lucky, so what we've done is amazing.

I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.

If you can sustain a career over 40 years in this business, you've gotta consider yourself lucky.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

I plan on having a long career. I don't want to burn out.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

There's something to be said for being on a team for your whole career. Not many players have done that. Only a select few. That's a goal to accomplish.

Every choice I'm making now is so that I can keep working for the next 30-40 years in this industry. These are not creative choices. These choices are to stay in the business, for many years to come.

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

I've been able to have some longevity here with the Chargers. It is unique.

It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

Maintaining longevity is a major part of success to me. So many people come into an industry quick, shoot to the top, then crash and burn.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.