Jeffrey Dean Morgan Quotes

I never really thought that I was going to get out of coaching ever. In my fifth year, I thought I might get out. You have those thoughts in any job. But I never really, really thought I was going to get out.

The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.

In 59 years I haven’t had to reinvent myself once.

I really thought about being on one team for my entire career, and that was really important to me.

I could very well see myself ending my professional career at Kaiserslautern.

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied playing the same character for 30 years; it's not why I want to do this for a living.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

I am very fortunate having the job that I do and I want to do it for as long as possible.

Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

I'd like to work for as long as possible and form connections with the labels I work for.

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.

I don't have any intention of resigning.

I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

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

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

I worked all through my 20s, all through my 30s, so I've been lucky to be working.

I want to have a long career.

I don't want to be like those guys that, two or three years into their contract, they do really good, and then they don't care.