Allison Pearson Quotes

I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.

I could never plan to have a career that went this well... you know, there were times when it didn't: when it went into the toilet, or ducked, or was difficult to get moving.

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

At the top of my career, I wasn't at the top of my game.

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

I'm satisfied with what I've done. I'm not satisfied with what has happened in my career, some of the real roadblocks I had to overcome.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

The truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall.

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations.

No one's career is full of highs. Somewhere down the line you are going to get kicked where it hurts and it's how you deal with that.

It's always difficult to say if anyone is in the best form of their career.

Every actor or director has their ups and downs.

It's just the story of my career, really. I will have good weeks; I'll have bad weeks. It's just a roller-coaster.

An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.

I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.

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.

I've done so much in my career but a little part of me feels I still have unfinished business here in the Premier League.