Mariel Hemingway Quotes

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.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

It's not easy to reach the summit of your career by the age of 24 - and for the years after to be a humiliating scrabble downhill.

A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

I mean, it's amazing that I get to meet all these people. I've learned so much from all of them. I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!

I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.

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.

It ain't over at 40. I haven't crested the best part of my career.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

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.

If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

Regardless of what level the actor's at, you always learn something. And you can learn something from bad actors as well, who I've also worked with in the past.

I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

I'm very fortunate to have spent so much time in the industry and to have lived through several generations of filmmakers, actors and technicians. There's a huge volume of experience seeing people change and seeing content change.

I think that there have definitely been points when I've had to fight to move my career in a different direction. I think, 2012, I did a few movies that touched on a darker side, and those are movies I'd been wanting to make and stories I'd been wanting to tell for a while. So I think it definitely takes work to move genres.