Danny Drinkwater Quotes

I really want to make this the last stop of my career. I don't want to be a vagabond, so to speak, and be traveling from team to team, year in and year out. I'm not that type of guy. I like to be settled.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

I tried to really look at what's best for my career, what's best for my life, what's best for my family, for me.

In my twenties, I definitely had a sense of wanting to create stability for myself.

Clearly define what success means for you. Set short-term and quarterly career goals with your manager that will help lead you to your long term goals.

I'm not really sure what defines 'success in the real world' to be honest! It's so objective once you graduate, some people work, some people start families, some go looking for themselves up mountains in Peru.

I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

I take things on a day to day basis when it gets really hectic. But I do think long term and I'm looking forward to the next couple of years when I do start producing my own films with my production company and playing some characters that are older and that's really exciting to me.

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

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

The aim for me is to have a long career. I've got a couple of kids, and so I can't really be a fashion because I have to sustain a life for my children.

I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

I would like to establish myself. I don't want to just have a moment.

It's increasingly rare for me to find things that challenge me as an actor because the challenge of my personal life, and how fulfilling I find it, is tough to compete with.

It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.

But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.'

I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.