Patricia Arquette Quotes

I feel like I'm getting the best parts of my career, in my 50s.

I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

I've seen a lot and experienced so many different cultures, and that's helped me a lot in my career and helped me mature as a person.

Two of the best roles I've ever had have happened in my late 40s.

There are times where fans don't understand that change is inevitable or that changes are done too fast. They say, 'We like the way you used to be.' Or they say, 'We liked what you did then.' You can't stay the same. As you mature as an adult, you find out you have to keep changing in this business. It's something The Undertaker laid on me.

I have a different perspective on the world than the way I looked at the world when I was 20. I was kind of naive. I'm a cancer survivor, been working in this industry for a time, and older with more opinions, more experience.

Perhaps, over the years, I have become less immature and more professional.

I'm 70 years old. I'm a young man, and I've still got a lot to learn, that's right, and I'm learning every day.

As you progress in your career, your character progresses and evolves.

I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

I was a late bloomer on the career front.

Being a part of 'Chasing Life' has been the greatest thing I've done, both personally and professionally.

I want to do something that is meaningful. After working for all these years, I want to do better as an actor now and choose roles that are challenging and satisfying.

I've always been about learning. No matter how long I've been in the business or where I've been in a company, I've always wanted to continue to learn.

If you're going to be a professional you continue to grow.

Lifelong learning is becoming commonplace, with people studying at different times when they see the benefits of doing so.

The biggest thing I have taken away from these two years at Roma is the fact I grew as a goalkeeper.

I believe that I'm going to have a long career, as long as I want, and I think by me going out into the world living a little bit made me... gave me more depth, so when I do go, going into movies is much easier for me.

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

When I started out in the profession, it was definitely about proving that I was worthy, but after achieving a certain amount of success, I realized I didn't have to prove anything to anybody.

The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.