Charles Murray Quotes

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.

I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don't, you'll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.

I'm not really too worried about what I'm gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me.

I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

I want to have a long career.

As an actor, you have to maximize your time, because you don't know what's going to happen in your 50s and 60s and 70s. It's like the career of an athlete: For many people, it ends at a certain point.

It was hard to know if anything, any one particular thing, increased my career or not.

I constantly know that showbiz is going to be short-lived, you have to grab every opportunity as well as you can.

I'm just confident about where my career is headed.

'Vikram Vedha' is special because it has taken me to the next level in my career.

I'm not sure if career can be planned.

I think with anything career-related, there really is no rush.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, 'If I do this movie, I'll be able to do a couple more movies.' Those are the times I really got ugly.

I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42.

In modelling, it's very hard to keep in touch with the people you knew when you started.

I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.