Brian France Quotes

I'm conscious that there's only a limited amount that I'll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire to retire.

I've always said I'm gonna work the road as hard as I can 'til I'm 50, then I might slow down a little bit.

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.

I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

I'm very happy doing what I'm doing; I don't think I'm prepared to devote my time to politics. When I am, I'd like to give it 100%. I'm not in the frame of mind, and I'm too greedy an actor to do that.

I've wanted to be a mother since I was 16, but I also just knew I wanted to have a career as well.

You know, life is long. My shooting career is long.

I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.

I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

I might retire when acting becomes too hard on me physically, but I don't want to give up easily. I really want to have a long-term acting career.

You only have so much time in the day, and you only have so many working years. Where do you want to invest that life?