Buddy Murphy Quotes

I had some downtime with my career and... I got complacent.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

I've seen a lot of my friends go through different reality shows, and they just get caught up in a lot of stagnant positions, unfortunately.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

I was never in the top category of anything. I was never on people's lists. I was never the potential anything!

I was a third string guy for a couple of years.

There is a time in every actor's life when he has to face the self-created hurdle after he starts getting bored of work and suddenly realises that he is left behind.

Let's just say that I've spent a lot of time being not very successful.

My career started slowly and then tapered off.

That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.

The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.

If you don't run, you rust.

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.

The essence of decay is inactivity.

What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.

A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.

If things are not working out, they just stop going forward.