Loretta Lynn Quotes

I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

I've only been acting since 2009 and I learn more and more with each job. I think I prepare and I'm very focused and I have a good work ethic that I learned in school.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.

For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

One day, I looked up and saw I had an extensive resume and saw how I did that and did not realize it because you are constantly working and trying to build a body of work.

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.

It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.

I'm just trying to up my films - how every film should be better than the previous one. That's what I struggle for.

Like each and every year I got to think that way, anyway. I got to think about the next person trying to come in and take my job, so I got to continue to... work hard and prove myself.

It's a fight for every actor to surpass what they have done in their previous film, especially when it is accepted hugely.

I must say I have turned down several great companies, so I'd probably say I have to keep learning.

I would rather have a career where I improve year after year than go to the top and then decline. There are a lot of strikers that reached the top before 25, but after 25, they went down.

I want to do only such films which will help me grow as an actor.

I want to keep working hard and looking to progress.

Every film I've done, I've tried to pick ones where I can learn.

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

I've been doing stand-up 29 years; there is no other career when you're finding your stride 30 years into it.

Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody's job and don't just settle.