Rachael Stirling Quotes

I wasn't about one season, but career and longevity.

Be ambitious about things that last.

I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.

It's nice to be in anything that anybody sees or likes. If it's something that has lasted, it's great.

I don't want to be the next hottest thing, I want longevity.

Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

My audience is going to die before I do.

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

But I think it's important that things endure.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.

I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

'Doctor Who' would be overnight fame that would last for three years, and then what? I'm in this for the long term.

There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me.

It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.

I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.

We don't want to be hot; we want to last - because eventually hot gets cooled down.